Copyright Infringement Ultimately Hurts More Than It Helps
ACA WSO is working diligently to protect ACA by removing copyright-infringing websites, online pdfs of our books, and counterfeit sales of ACA literature. These efforts involve considerable legal expenses and staff time but are necessary, so the copyrights are...
I, Annie
I amI am an Adult ChildI am an Adult Child of an Adult Child of an Adult ChildI am the 3rd of 3 childrenI am the only girl I wasI was never visibleI was never able to speak upI was never allowed to be imperfectI was never sure if I was wanted I learnedI learned to...
Come Join SRC for a Service Norms Document Review Discussion Meeting
Come join the Safety Resources Committee (SRC) for a review and discussion of the Service Norms Document, compiled as a ‘living document’ by the SRC and posted on our website earlier this year after previewing at the 2024 ABC. Let your voice be heard! This meeting...
Rock Climbing
GraspingClinchingUpper body strengthReachingLeg ForcePulling myself off the groundIndependentToo earlyHad to figure something outHow can I get your help and support?The efforts began earlyCrying did not workAsking voice was taking early in lifeNot by genetics or my...
Loving Parent
My Loving Parent, Guides my daily actionShapes my choices and decisionsTo my utter satisfaction. The voices withinWhich one do I hear?The self-critical blaming voice,Or the loving one that is near.Reacting with fear and self-doubt The adult child...
Get Over It?
(Authors Note: A short poem about a dismissive phrase I've heard a few times, sometimes from well-meaning people.)Get over it: three of the ugliest words I have heard, spoken only by those who cannot hear the heart. I first heard it from a preacher. I forget the...
Flying Spaghetti Monster
(Author’s Note: This short poem refers to a couple of similar childhood events and my thoughts at the time. It is about daddy-Monster's temper and the effect it had on one of my brothers and the rest of us.) I am eight or nine years old;my reckless brother is one year...
Red Flags
I see them. I saw them even as a child, but I don’t have to not see them anymore. That was then, that was the times – that’s what everyone did. Then. But I am now, in a future you could not/would not go to. As I step through yet another portal in my mind, again a...
Déchiffrer les palimpsestes familiaux
Autrefois, il fut un temps où les livres étaient écrits sur des parchemins, matériau parfois cher et rare. Face à cette rareté, il arrivait que les copistes effacent le premier texte pour récupérer le parchemin et écrire un nouveau texte par-dessus. De nos jours, des...
Overture
I think you meant it, but I couldn’t trust you enough to believe you. For sure you were seeking some sort of closeness, but it was too late. There were too many years of silence, unspoken sentences and rejection. Too many looks of disgust that just brought home that...