These words, familiar to recovering people everywhere, describe the
challenging realities we must face when we begin recovering from an
addiction. And as life goes on there is a tremendous need for
meaningful recovery support. Learning to deal with the different
stages of growth and the new emotions that surface during the
recovery process requires new living skills.
Now all the pamphlets in the bestselling Hazelden Pocket Power
series have been collected in this inspirational volume. Living
Recovery provides an in-depth look at twenty-two tools for
recovery, and offers pragmatic guidance in penetrating, yet
easy-to-read reflections on:
-- Accepting Criticism
-- Forgiveness
-- Freedom from Fear
-- Gratitude
-- Great Expectations
-- Honesty
-- Hope
-- Humility
-- Inadequacy
-- Just for Today
-- Letting Go
-- Living the Principles
-- Loneliness
-- Loving Relationships
-- Miracles in Recovery
-- Patience
-- Prayer and Meditation
-- Reaching Out to Others
-- Serenity
-- Surrender
-- Understanding Rejection
-- When Doors Close
So whether you're recovering from addiction or you live or work
with someone who is, the principles of Twelve Step living outlined
in this book can guarantee a richer, healthier life.
One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the
Random House edition of Hockney's Alphabet will go to the American
Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust for AIDS research and services to
people with AIDS.
Sir Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in
Britain and America to contribute original texts for an alphabet to
be specially drawn by David Hockney, the proceeds of which would
benefit AIDS research and services to people with AIDS. The result
is this stunning volume of ABCs for grown-ups, a unique anthology
of art and literature.
Here are the letters of the alphabet, in David Hockney's inimitable
style -- created in a variety of media, including collage and laser
copier -- with brief accompanying texts by a dazzling array of
world-class writers. Each was assigned to his or her letter by
Stephen Spender, who himself contributed the Preface and a poem for
the letter A.
Those who love words will delight in the texts, which include,
among others:
-- Joyce Carol Oates on B, for birth, the "most profound" of all
the Bs.
-- Iris Murdoch on C, a "warm, comforting, friendly" letter.
-- Paul Theroux on D, for death: "An endless night so awful to
contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such
passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all
art."
-- Gore Vidal on E: "So very like a comb."
-- Norman Mailer on F: "What a compliment you are paying me with
that letter."
-- Martin Amis on H, for homosexual: "It asks for courage. It
demands courage."
-- Erica Jong on I, a poem, "To the Letter I."
-- Margaret Drabble on L, for laughter: "Do we not, in looking back
on friendships, holidays, parties, good times, remember the
laughter even when the jokes are forgotten?"
-- Doris Lessing on P, for pumpkin: "One of the joys of
autumn."
-- Kazuo Ishiguro on T, for T-bone steak: "A dish renowned for its
directness and simplicity."
-- Julian Barnes on U, for unless: "The most sinister word in the
English language."
-- John Updike on V, for venereal, but also for victory.
-- Susan Sontag on W, for weather.
-- Anthony Burgess on X, a poem, "An Elegy for X."
Along the way, there is a previously unpublished letter, donated to
the project by Mrs. Valerie Eliot, from T. S. Eliot to a young,
aspiring writer, and a short essay by Arthur Miller comparing
contemporary prejudice against AIDS to the prejudice against
tuberculosis he remembers from his childhood.
"The world's Alphabets -- Alpha to Omega," says Stephen Spender in
the Preface, "are drums and trumpets, clarion calls, State
Funerals, Massed Choirs, Burial and Redemption." Hockney's Alphabet
is all that, as well as an enchanting and thought-provoking gift
book that will help end the AIDS crisis here and all over the
world.
"From the Paperback edition."
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