Author’s Statement

I spent two decades drinking alcoholically and abusing stimulants for ‘weight management’. Alcoholism and addiction didn’t sneak up on me; gradual devolution occurred. Ultimately pleasure and pain became indistinguishable. There was a moment at the end when the calamities and catastrophes which I had created reached ‘critical state’. I found myself unmourned, unraveling, untethered in my life.

Out of the blue; unexpected and undeserved cam what I can only describe as a cataclysmic thunderbolt moment. Everything changed. Desperation aided by willingness. A ‘miracle’ moment. Hopelessness collided with possibility. My personal recovery experience was sustained through and by Alcoholics Anonymous. It saved my life. Gradually it aided in creating an entirely new life. I sought and continued to seek purpose and amazement.

The expressions, quotes, inspirations and revelations in this calendar were things I thought I heard or maybe they arrived by some divine frequency. They affected me. They moved me, reminded me, touched me and ultimately they changed me. They blessed me. I was contacted. The photos were the evidence that enlightenment was all around me – miraculous demonstrations of beauty.

It is my hope that something, one thing, any of these messages touch you, change you and may you thrive in your own personal journey of recovery.

Deborah Carman