This week's topic in my on-line Al-Anon group is one-liners. It's amazing how many people are sharing on that topic. They don't just contribute one, they share 4 or 5 at a time. It makes doing the Focus on CAL difficult because I don't want to repeat one that's already been done. So, I chose to do one from Courage to Change, p. 153: "Expectations are premeditated resentments." I could have followed it up (but I didn't) with another one from One Day at a Time in Al-Anon: "Resentments are where I mark myself as a victim."

It's hard not to have expectations. I guess now I look at it as wishful thinking rather than expecting something. In some ways a wish seems less harmful to my psyche.

Not sure what today will hold but I hope it brings peaceful thinking. I've got projects to work on- evaluations of my assistants, handmade books for my students, a new Al-Anon meeting tonight at 5:30 in the Public Library meeting room and an article for the Giles County Historical Society Bulletin for next year. I think I have enough to do to keep from being bored.

Boy, am I glad that I did my journaling for today on expectations! I was the only one to show up tonight at the library for a meeting. I really did not anticipate anyone else coming. If I had had the expectation I'd have been highly upset.

For some reason the song, With or Without You, has popped into my head and I can't shake it. Don't know why I am hearing it.