The Journey's the Thing…

I have been performing more service than I have ever experienced. Organizing an international AA convention is hard and rewarding work. I suggest you all try it.

Yesterday I found out that my cousin had died. He was an alcoholic who never found any kind of sobriety or peace in life. His death was bloody, painful, and tragic. Blissfully his final hours were spent in a soporific coma before his family removed life-support. The details are not important except to remember that massive organ failure awaits me as well if I choose the dark path again. I am angry, sad, and grateful all in one breath. When I heard the news I wanted to drink, but instead spoke to another alcoholic instead. I was better and back on the beam.

My reality here in Croatia is much different. I am surrounded by recovery, the sun is hot, the convention is super, and I still have 5 weeks of travel left until I return to the USA.

More later….

Johnnyboy

I was able to cut and paste my way through the password reset dilemma and now have a new one. So the blog continues.

Croatia is fun, tiring, adventurous, hot, rainy, sunny, filling, and full of AA.

The convention begins this weekend and the hotel is the Hotel Medina which is a Tito-era monolith of what can only be described as having ‘cold-war’ charm. The rooms are clean and neat, the lobby is the size of a basketball court, and there are so many conference halls it boggles the mind. Tennis courts, swimming pools, water slides, etc…remember this is the place Tito took his good friends Sophia Loren and Richard Burton before they went to his island hideaway of Brioni–now a closed national park.

My friend Marko says that the three of them enjoyed the water slide immensely.

The DigPhoPro is moving along and I am focusing (no pun intended) on depth-of-field today. I have yet to begin reading any thing for the paper I am going to write when I return, but I will.

More will be revealed…

Johnnyboy