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Our bedrooms at La Paloma Treatment Center are comfortable and spacious. You'll be able to get the rest you need as you enter rehab for drug, alcohol, or substance abuse or addiction.
I wanted to do something special today, but I've been cleaning the house so a quick selfie with the Rebel @ 55mm is all I've got -- and I likes!
This upcoming week is super magical for me. My sobriety birthday (3 years!) is the 8th, and my birthday birthday is the 10th. I have lots of wonderful, nurturing stuff planned to celebrate -- and of course who knows what else will happen?
Last night's potluck + AA meeting was heaps o' fun. My parents were there too, and it's beyond cool how we're all in this together. At the end of the meeting I got to hold hands with the very first man my Dad talked to when my Dad stumbled through the doors of AA back in 1974 -- and connected with. My Dad's been sober ever since. So many miracles and blessings in life.
Silas agrees. My workerbee Max took Silas to the park today and whupped his butt playing! Silas loves boys. I wish Max could take him to football practice a couple times a week. :)
GREAT news -- our family friend Michael Emde not only finished but WON the Furnace Creek 508 today for the third year in a row! The Furnace Creek 508 race course is 509.5 miles long and has a total elevation gain of over 35,000 feet, while crossing ten mountain passes, and stretching from Santa Clarita (just north of Los Angeles), across the Mojave Desert, through Death Valley, to Twenty Nine Palms. YAY Michael!
Michael is married to Marla Emde, my coach and friend and the organizer of Spokane's Valley Girl Triathlon.
It's Sunday, my favorite night of the week. I'm fixing a roast and watching Dexter tonight. Happy Sunday, Flickr peeps!
Illustration of the eye test during a DWI sobriety exam.
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Painted while NOT drinking- detoxing is fucking rubbish- shout out to the old guy with tourretes who called me a bloody fucker
After his cheating wife files for divorce and full custody of their daughter Andrew finds himself teetering between a life of drug addiction and sobriety. His only solace is found in the arms of an exotic dancer. As their relationship intensifies she begins to pull him out of sobriety and farther down the dark road of drug addiction and sexual experimentation.
I believe it's just touch your nose not smash your nose. Oops.
Glad I'm not drivin'. For FGR and Unusual Looking. ;)
#soon Coming up on 19 years of sobriety!
a Polaroid of me wearing a Polaroid shirt. #polaroidception ? ;-)
June 26, 2011.
6.26.97-Sobriety Date.
I was 14 years Sober the date I took this photo.
FLASHBACK TO FIVE YEARS AGO!
On the 26th of this month I will have 19 years of sobriety!!!!
#sobriety #personal #selfie #cleanandsober #strong #empowered #grateful #shellykayphotography
Almost 2 decades baby!!!
The Cadets of Temperance was first established 1846 in Philadelphia, USA as an auxiliary section of the adult temperance society called the Sons of Temperance. The first British branch of the Cadets of Temperance (CoT) was established 1850 in Liverpool as the youth section of the Sons of Temperance. Membership of the CoT was for children aged up to 16 years of age but in practise, their aged generally ranged from 10 to 17 years and those tended to be the sons or daughters of parents who were already enrolled in the Sons of Temperance. From its early days the CoT in Britain worked closely with the Band of Hope, another temperance movement with a large youth membership.
The moral welfare of the Cadets would be catered for by education in good citizenship, through regular meetings, competitions and other activities to maintain their interest. Members could also parade in their Cadets’ regalia that included a sash, ribbons, medals and the badge depicting the CoT emblem. The aims of the CoT were to instil temperance values into children before they could acquire a taste for alcohol and tobacco too, as well as to encourage them to continue as adult members of the Sons of Temperance. The CoT pledge was “I solemnly promise not to make, buy, sell, or use as a drink any alcoholic liquor of any kind whatever. I promise also not to use tobacco in any form”. In addition, the CoT also sought to discourage their members from using profane language.
The Sons of Temperance were a Friendly Society whose guiding principle was total abstinence from alcohol with a strong Christian ethos. The Sons were first established in New York in 1842 from where the movement spread throughout America, to parts of Canada and in 1849 their first English branch opened in Liverpool. Its members contributed to a common fund which provided insurance, saving schemes as well as sick and death benefits. There were strict rules and conditions attached to becoming a member, of which abstinence from alcohol was paramount and this rule is still applied but perhaps not as strictly as in the past.
This medal is inscribed to a Sister A. G. Brown of the Anglican Church Women and as an adult it's likely she was actively involved with the CoT, possibly in a teaching role. The year 1925 was also the Cadets of Temperance 75th anniversary.
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References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Temperance (Sons of Temperance - Wikipedia article).
www.sonsoftemperance.info/history_cadets_temperance.htm (Sons of Temperance UK - their history).
www.flickr.com/photos/118130027@N03/12746240895/in/photol... (A Cadets of temperance meeting group. Notice also the regalia.)
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wijuneau/Cadets1886.htm (A CoT meeting of 1886 – shows the usual meeting agenda at that time, much like the old style of Sunday School).
www.sonsoftemperance.info/ (Sons of Temperance UK website).
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Enamels: 2 (blue & white).
Finish: n/a.
Material: Silver.
Fixer: B ale & suspension ring.
Size: 1 3/16” across (31mm).
Process: Die stamped.
Imprint: Silver hallmarked for Birmingham 1925 (A). Maker’s mark T&S in three conjoined circles for Turner & Simpson Ltd of Birmingham. Hand-engraved on the reverse side with the following text: SIS. A. G. BROWN A.C.W. (ACW may represent the Anglican Church Women, which was a women’s auxiliary organisation within the Anglican Church of Britain and Ireland).
Substance addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disease that causes negative emotional, physical and psychological problems. Abuse of drugs and alcohol can consequently lead to tolerance and dependence and thus alters the functioning and chemical properties of the brain. It can also lead to other negative consequences that affect the addict’s personal relationships, financial stability, and career. In order to effectively treat this disease, rehabilitation through a Drug Treatment Centers Wilmington NC is recommended in order to achieve a future of sustained sobriety. Through various addiction treatment therapy techniques that are available, patients will be able to find a program that is suitable for them.
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Inflamed by the imprisonment of the strikers in the 1891 shearers’ strike, William Lane imagined a future where white English-speaking men could live on the land with their wives and children in equality, in sobriety and in social harmony. The land, however, was not to be in Queensland, or even Australia. It was to be a ‘New Australia’ in Paraguay.
Lane had been a prominent unionist and journalist in Brisbane, writing under numerous pseudonyms such as John Miller, The Sketcher, Bystander, Lucinda Sharpe and later, in New Zealand, Tohunga. His rallying cry for a new utopian communist state attracted a wave of interest from around Australia. He established the ‘New Australia Co-operative Colonisation Society’ and each prospective male was expected to pay a minimum of £60 (equivalent to over $8,500 today) into a general fund. Soon enough, his supporters had raised £30,000 (over $4 million) for the new colony.
On 1 July 1893, 238 passengers – including many Queensland bushmen and shearers – boarded the ship Royal Tar in Mort Bay in Sydney to embark for a new life in the jungles of South America. Many more followed, including poet Dame Mary Gilmore, who now graces the Australian $10 note.
Once in Paraguay, though, the English-speaking paradise-seekers soon realised the challenges of establishing a colony in a country where only Guaraní and Spanish were spoken. John Alfred Rogers wrote: ‘there are several people here barefooted and without a shirt … to their back and very often an empty belly’.
Relations with Paraguayans were forbidden by the puritanical Lane, as was alcohol. Colonists chafed against his autocratic leadership and soon started to desert the settlement.
In 1894, Lane and several other followers left New Australia to set up another Paraguayan colony: Cosme. Regardless of the new name and place, the old problems followed. It was reported that at least 80 per cent of the colonists at New Australia or Cosme would ‘gladly leave if they got the chance’. What had started as a vision of paradise ended up as a hell of hungry men, desperate wives and half-clothed children.
In November 1895, colonist Alfred Armstrong wrote:
… we bitterly regret ever having left our comfortable home … to come to this country where we cannot make a living such as is understood by a living in Australia. We are fast sinking into a wretched and hopeless condition … [and] are completely stranded here.
Some of the settlers, now disillusioned and destitute, ruefully approached the Queensland government for assistance to return and the government funded their passage home.
However, some settlers remained behind and up to 2,000 Australian Paraguayans – descendants from New Australia and Cosme – continue to live in Paraguay today.
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From left, Alexsis Johnson tells her personal story to sobriety to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett, and rural leaders participating in a roundtable discussion in Middletown, Penn., on March 14, 2018. Conversations centered around opioid misuse and its effects on rural communities.#OpioidTalk USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
In a truly exceptional location that is right in the centre of the city of Lleida stands the monumental complex of the hill of the Seu Vella. It is comprised of different buildings: the Seu Vella or old cathedral, the Castle of the King or Suda, the military fortification that surrounds the site and various archaeological remains that help us understand the present.
The volumes and profiles that it generates are an overview of the history of Lleida and the hill in particular. The strategic position of this hill, rising from a flat landscape and well communicated in all directions as well as the proximity of the River Segre, has resulted in uninterrupted occupation since ancient times. It is very likely that the Iberian Iltirta, the Roman Ilerda and the Muslim Larida lie under its subsoil, as well as the excellent gothic quarter that was growing majestically in medieval times. The Seu Vella and the Castle of the King are the most outstanding evidences.
Irreparable losses and undesirable applications would come with modern times and European-wide wars, when the entire hill would be desolated and in its place a military fortification that would gradually be built. The only two buildings that were not demolished, the cathedral and the castle, were transformed into gloomy military barracks, a use that would unfortunately last until 1948. Then a slow and encouraging restoration work began that is still underway.
The Seu Vella is the most outstanding building at the monumental complex that bears its name and its silhouette, the skyline of the city. It is the old cathedral of Lleida, but it is not alone. In the city centre, on Carrer Major, we find the Seu Nova, the new cathedral. The fate of one brought on the birth of the other.
Defined as one of the best artistic productions of 13th century Catalan architecture and, by extension, of European medieval architecture, the Seu Vella is a singular cathedral that leaves no one indifferent. Its architecture shares the limelight with high quality carvings that are preserved in capitals, cornices, corbels, portals, etc. The substantial remains of preserved mural paintings or the chapels built by prominent families or distinguished church members are a reflection of a prestigious building with a splendid past.
The Seu Vella cathedral is also steeped in history, as it became an important artistic centre and the visual reference of a rich, extensive and powerful diocese.
Sobriety, grandeur and magnificence are some of its attributes. However, there are many more.
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Hey so tonight was my 4 year birthday talk at my homegroup. I celebrate sobriety because it is a huge flippin deal for me not to have to smoke, drink, pop, slam, or do anything in the morning to get out of bed and get going...okay I lied, I'm totally addicted to coffee or diet mtn. dew but really it's massively okay. I said so.
So anyway, I think I did a pretty good job tonight, and they laughed...they cried...my parents even came! And I didn't embarrass them, as far as I know...Anyway, I go to the best group in the world! And am thorougly blessed I get to live sober today.
I know none of you knew me back then, and count your blessings that you didn't. I'm much cooler now :) I'm grateful I get to show up in your guys lives too, so thanks for that!! xoxoxox
Hope you all are grateful for something small (or huge) in your lives everyday...And you have yourselves an awesome tomorrow!!
The grounds, though somewhat overgrown, show the signs of elegant landscaping in keeping with the restrained mid-Victorian sobriety.
Illustration of a man performing a field sobriety test for DWI.
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This is Marco Sullivan, Olympic downhill ski champ. This pic is much funnier bc the angle reflects my sobriety
Playing the drunk driver in the simulation, Piedmont High School student Sean Cooper fails sobriety tests conducted by Piedmont Police Officer Randy Price.
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With the prom right around the corner the students of Emmett O'Brien Technical School receives a sobering dose of reality this morning. A mock fatal accident was staged in the school parking lot with four of their classmates as victims complete with a rescue response by the Ansonia PD, Connecticut State Police, ARMS, and the Ansonia Volunteer Fire Department. The scene depicted a head on accident with a fatal partial ejection along with several other critically injured patients requiring extrication. The well organized drill drove home the reality of the dangers and consequences of under age drinking and driving. From the looks on the faces of the students and the attention as the crews worked on the mock patients, the driver of the car was arrested, and the deceased victim was removed from the scene it appeared as though the point of the drill was well received. Having been involved in many of these drills as rescuer and photographer I can say that the services did an excellent job of depicting the reality of an accident scene as well as performing a smooth rescue operation. The school administration and all the career and volunteer responders should be congratulated on a job well done by providing this learning experience for the students.
Lena Emmery has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years. She supports the police presence.
This is part of my story at KALW: Do San Francisco police scare drug users away from needle exchange sites?
When a syringe access program in Haight-Ashbury meets, there's often aggressive policing. But not on nights when the program doesn't meet. That can scare away drug users and have deadly consequences. SFPD's guidelines say officers shouldn't interfere.
Aaron Rohde/Staff photographer
Portsmouth Police Officer Rochelle Jones conducts a sobriety test on a driver suspected to be driving under the influence during a police checkpoint off of the Portsmouth traffic circle Saturday night.
First Aid vending machine in the Munich Subway. Mouthspray, Band-Aid, Drug- Sobriety- Pregnancy- and Prostate cancer tests...
Un autre escalier des musées du Vatican, beaucoup plus récent (2000) mais moins fascinant que l'autre.
An other stair at the Vatican museums.
Deputy Brian Phillips of Adams County Sheriff's Office performs a nystagmus field sobriety test on CDOT cannabis lab participant.
One of the officers told me I could get on a bike for a pic! Heh heh!
Do you always approach a bike from the left like you would a horse I wonder?
The Ouija Board book I am working on presents stages of the life of Malcolm Baylor. Malcolm is the person my friends learned about in their Ouija Board sessions. The details of his life given to the girls were very minimal. They became frightened by the story the board was telling them and got rid of it. My focus in making this book is to take the pertinent aspects of the story and flesh it out with my own creative approach. My friends - now grown women in their fifties - swear this really happened. So, I am taking their tale and building a story around what they have told me.