Thanks for sharing this Susie. You touch on so many powerful and personal points in your life. The AA friends I’ve had as lifeguards I’ll always have. Just FYI men do this as well as women do although I understand that’s my experience and maybe not yours. There are angels among and we too can do the same for others when called. 🙏
When I reread this before sending it to you that aside about women kind of snagged me...I have great male friends in the program and have watched them help each other immensely. I salute you guys. Of course in early sobriety - and in a marriage that was fraught - my sponsor was advising me to surround myself with women 😃.
Thanks Sue for this angelic post (hopefully I can live up to all the accolades)! I especially love all of the classic Sue and Lou pictures! Our friendship/sisterhood/partnership is cemented! #SESSCA for life! PS sorry for all of the exclamation marks...
Hi Lou! So much fun with you this weekend. Next time, we'll have to bring the peanut butter sandwiches and notebook along on the hikes! Thank you for ALL you do for me! (nothing to live up to - you surpassed that long ago...) I love exclamation points! xoxoxo
Thank you for sharing all these beautiful angels with us. Your gratitude is contagious! I have a feeling you’re an angel to many, including your readers!
You are such an amazing human! Every story you tell is such an uplift. I subscribe because there is just NO WAY I cannot read the full story. I have been a subscriber for years but once you got on Substack I knew I was going to follow you here. I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day! 🌺❤️
Oh my, that is very kind of you. Thank you for being a long-time subscriber. I try to stay on the positive side of things both to remind myself of the good stuff and to try to swim upstream against all the negative stuff out there!
Thanks for sharing this Susie. You touch on so many powerful and personal points in your life. The AA friends I’ve had as lifeguards I’ll always have. Just FYI men do this as well as women do although I understand that’s my experience and maybe not yours. There are angels among and we too can do the same for others when called. 🙏
When I reread this before sending it to you that aside about women kind of snagged me...I have great male friends in the program and have watched them help each other immensely. I salute you guys. Of course in early sobriety - and in a marriage that was fraught - my sponsor was advising me to surround myself with women 😃.
I just re-read this again, and am saying Thank you again 🙏🏻
I’m glad it helps!
We don't make it on our own, that's for sure. Thanks for naming the angels. You have me now thinking of mine....
It is fun to look back and see them!
Thanks Sue for this angelic post (hopefully I can live up to all the accolades)! I especially love all of the classic Sue and Lou pictures! Our friendship/sisterhood/partnership is cemented! #SESSCA for life! PS sorry for all of the exclamation marks...
Hi Lou! So much fun with you this weekend. Next time, we'll have to bring the peanut butter sandwiches and notebook along on the hikes! Thank you for ALL you do for me! (nothing to live up to - you surpassed that long ago...) I love exclamation points! xoxoxo
Thank you for sharing all these beautiful angels with us. Your gratitude is contagious! I have a feeling you’re an angel to many, including your readers!
Hi Priscilla - I don’t know about that 😂 but thank you. I think your doggie Charlie was an angel, so I am sure they are everywhere! Thank you.
You are such an amazing human! Every story you tell is such an uplift. I subscribe because there is just NO WAY I cannot read the full story. I have been a subscriber for years but once you got on Substack I knew I was going to follow you here. I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day! 🌺❤️
Oh my, that is very kind of you. Thank you for being a long-time subscriber. I try to stay on the positive side of things both to remind myself of the good stuff and to try to swim upstream against all the negative stuff out there!
That's a really beautiful essay about your closest friends and sister! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Edie! ❤️
You're welcome,Susie! Keep up the good work! Love seeing your writing talent in full bloom!
I heart this so hard. Sharing with my best friend now.
Aw, thank you Kharma and yay for best friends!!
I love this so much; thank you. You give me so much hope and a sense of possibility. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Oh that makes me happy Elissa! Hope is so important. And there is always possibility, there really is. Love you!