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Vmphoto
"The road to success is always under construction"
My URL: http://www.addictiontribe.com/vmphoto

JOB: Tech
SMOKE: No
SOBER SINCE: February 1, 1992
RELIGION: Other
ORIENTATION: Straight
DATING STATUS: Married
MEMBER SINCE: August 22, 2007
POINTS: [ 4000+ ]
GENDER: Male
LOCATION: California, United States
AGE: 50
VIEWS: 914
STAR SIGN: Aquarius
LAST LOGIN: 02.08.10




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Recovery gave me a chance at life, a spiritual path, and a new life. "Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all." (Bill W, The Big Book)

My passion is photography, it is part of my spiritual path and like breath itself for me.

As for my story; alcohol is my drug of choice and after about the nine thousandth awful morning after of promising myself I would do something about it, a million promises broken to friends and family, a million excuses for bad behavior, a million lies to cover up, a broken marriage, and then a girlfriend refused to move in with me because she couldn't live with someone with my problem.

Well it was that moment of grace---I finally reached out and asked for some help...and thank God so many are there willing to take that shaking outstretched hand!





One Day at a Time
Some comments on other members pages have had me thinking about this "bumper sticker" truism. In the early days of my recovery, survival was literally one day at a time and sometimes an hour at a time. As time passed one day seemed to become manageable. Now I must be careful to remind myself every day that it is another day to celebrate and practice sobriety.

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

--- Kalidasa

"We are but visitors on this rock. Hurtling through time and space at sixty-sixty thousand miles per hour. Tethered to a burning sphere by an invisible force in an unfathomable universe. This, most of us take for granted while refusing to believe that this has any more effect on us than a butterfly beating its wings half way around the world." - Fox Mulder, The X-Files



What's my point? If you change yourself, you change the world...


photography | relationships | lifes' little miracles: recovery, love, my daughters | walks almost anywhere in nature; the desert, the mountains, the ocean | dreams | camping | good food | good movies | real people | mythology | theology | spirituality | herbalism | intention | touch | art | artists | people watching |


Back to Basics - Wally P (introduction in eight ten-minute segments)



superficiality - hypocrisy - lack of compassion - lack of passion

pages with their music turned on...please let me decide!



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February 1, 2010, 6:18 pm


Happy birthday!!!! :o)

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The real macoy. Truly banana's.
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January 23, 2010, 8:18 pm
Honestly? Horrible. But the best I've been in years at the same time. I am realizing how toxic my relationship was. Sobering thought, that. Wow. How are you doing?

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The real macoy. Truly banana's.
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January 23, 2010, 12:01 pm
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Of all the bees I'd rather bee...I'd rather bee a Weatherbee
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July 31, 2009, 10:10 am
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Just for Today
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From: mazzy
July 12, 2009, 3:40 am
Hi Vic..just stopping by to say hi and wish you well..Be safe and have a great day.. love and respect, ~~mazzy~~

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Threads of my life: Carlos Nakai . U2 . Leonard Cohen . Neil Young . Chris Isaac . Pink Floyd . Rickie Lee Jones . Paul Simon . Sting . Sheryl Crow

Current: Nora Jones . Dave Matthews . Joss Stone . Sacred Earth


Tend to focus on non-fiction regarding the interest of the moment or specific authors. Ivan Doig and Rainer Maria Rilke come to mind.

And of course, photographic books are almost another addiction.

Motion pictures are possibly the best story telling medium of modern times. Movies are a passion for me and my taste is a bit eccentric but here are a few of my favorite things: The Legend of Baggar Vance . Wonder Boys . The World's Fastest Indian . The Razor's Edge . The Human Stain . Boys Don't Cry . Angel Eyes . Same Time Next Year . Star Wars . Blade Runner . Apocalypse Now . Dances With Wolves . Unforgiven . Out of Africa . Nell . American Beauty . When A Man Loves A Woman . Field of Dreams . City of Angels

Recent: King of California . Penelope . The Great Buck Howard

TV!: The Cleaner on A&E


Hobbies is an odd word. Does that mean they aren't important enough to be Likes? So maybe something like watching the neighbors? Is internet social networking a Like or a Hobby or both? Hmmm...


All right, this might be a hobby: bread making

October 18, 2009, 7:53 am
Life has such strange twists and turns. I lost a good friend to alcohol about six months ago and still haven't really been able to wrap my head around it. Not the grief and not the "if I had done
more." Those I have mostly come to
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