Haida
Gwaii Traditional Circle of Elders
Cessation
of drinking is but the first step away from a highly strained, abnormal
condition. A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is
almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is, to some
extent, ill." Let families realize, as they start their journey, that all
will not be fair weather. Each in his turn may be footsore and may straggle. There
will be alluring shortcuts and by-paths down which they may wonder and lose
their way.
Big
Book pg. 122
Creator show us our
place in the circle.