ABCs we'd rather not face

Angry
Belligerent Blaming
Critical
Denial

EtOH, a shorthand used by EMTs to describe a patient who is displaying 

symptoms of over-consumption, or withdrawal from, alcoholic beverages.

Family dis-ease
Grandparents
Higher Power
I am struggling to process it all
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One Day at a Time
Problems Prayers
Quitting is not the same as surrendering to a high power
Realized I just could NOT post a blog so bleak.... and then...

heard this on Writer's Almanac Podcast for Jan 5, 2012

Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye

A man crosses the street in rain,

stepping gently, looking two times north and south,

because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.

No car drive too near to his shadow.

This man carries the world's most sensitive cargo

but he's not marked.

Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE,

HANDLE WITH CARE.

His ear fills up with breathing.

He hears the hum of a boy's dream

deep inside him.

We're not going to be able

to live in this world

if we're not willing to do what he's doing

with one another.

The road will only be wide.

The rain will never stop falling.

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012/01/05