The AM Reflections AA meeting
is usually a small group of people that are new or starting over in recovery
that meets Monday through Friday. Meeting
Secretaries generally bring a sweet treat such as cookies to the meeting. When I was secretary of the Friday meeting,
we would stop at Safeway on the way to the meeting to pick a dozen donuts or mini-strudels.
Lea has gotten us motivated to make chocolate chip cookies. I like mine with nuts so we add chopped pecans
or walnuts. They come out pretty
good. She does the measuring, I do the
mixing, she does most of the work with the cookie sheets including dolloping
out the dough for each cookie and putting the sheets in the oven.
We have made cookies 6 or 8 times in the last two months. It is good practice for both of us. Neither one of us is especially experienced
or skilled at working with others. I
have to overcome a strong aversion to being in a kitchen with others at all,
much less when working hot foods or sharp knives. The kitchen is a dangerous place for anybody
and especially so for guys in wheelchairs.
I am grateful that Lea and I get along well enough to work together in
the kitchen. That is new territory for
both of us and it is going fairly well. Judging
by how the cookies are gone by the end of the meeting, members are also
grateful we are able to work together to make the world a little sweeter place.
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