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“A.A.” is the common shortcut used when writing about Alcoholics Anonymous. In all our literature, when these initials are used when referring to Alcoholics Anonymous, it is printed “capital A period, capital A period”. Now what about “AA”? AA without the periods means Alcoholic in Action. As your Delegate for Area 56, the first months…
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Greetings Area 56! Today I am in Grand Rapids, Michigan attending the ECR Conference combined with the 71st Michigan State Convention. It’s a gathering of 500 of my closest friends from the East Central Region (Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin). It is being held on the campus of Calvin University. I am staying in…
Receiving and Giving the Gift of Sobriety
It’s finally here! After years in development THE PLAIN LANGUAGE BIGBOOK – A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous has been published. Thebook is available at Central Office, or you can order directly from aa.org.This is the First Edition, First Printing of the PLBB, as it is commonly called.I purchased one for myself for personal use…
An example of an Elder Statesman
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Delegate’s Report
February 25, 2023, Area 56 Assembly On Thursday, January 26, 2023, I flew to New York to attend the General Service Board Weekend. This is an honor given only to Delegate Conference Committee Chairs. The other chairs came from California, Wyoming, Tennessee, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas City and three from Canada. We stayed at…
Interim report from our delegate in New York Greetings from Brooklyn, New York!
I am attending the 74th General Service Conference of AA, “Connecting with Love, Unity and Service.” I am amazed, *and I am only halfway through!You know what our upside-down triangle looks like, right?This week the bottom portion of that triangle is working together on all the agenda items that were selected this year.I am grateful…
