Northwest Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park
“A Host of Friends” is all I ever wanted. Living in a home as an only child (though I wasn’t) and being the only kid in the neighborhood my age, left me seeking peer companionship with all the glee of a ghost, on a bike, at a traffic light. Very early on I remember trying to fit in, hoping to be liked, and acting out just to be noticed.
Alcohol and drugs became my solution very early; Boones Farm Strawberry Hill left me wanting more, in third grade. Many years later…enter the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. In my first meeting, I felt welcomed and comfortably home. You asked me to keep coming back, and you meant that. You let me pour coffee, clean ashtrays and greet people at the door! At last- I have found my people! ‘You are going to meet these new Friends in your own community… Here you will find cheerfulness and laughter..’ My wish is one of hope. Hope to bring back the energy of Service to District 42 and how much fun is just waiting to be had! Our first district meeting was a technical debacle but we made it through and UP goes the learning curve again. Zoom crashed my computer while doing a pre-meeting test and it was 7:23 until call to order- on a different account. No “recording” of minutes to the cloud, but Friends were at the ready to step up and put pen to paper. New GSR’s welcomed, Committee, Officers and Group reports given, and we closed with the Responsibility Declaration at 8:34pm. If it was a perfect launch, who would think giving of oneself into Service is attractive? ‘…for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.’ Among them(us/we) you will make lifelong Friends.’
Teri H.
DCM 42
