Why can’t I find any OA specific stuff? Other than a few aluminum coins and one generic OA recovery medallion, there isn’t any stuff. The recovery medallion can be engraved, but it doesn’t say what it’s made of. At $3 USD it can’t be quality metal can it? AA and NA have tons of stuff, authorized and not. I like physical reminders of stuff. I was thinking of getting myself a medallion for my 1 year abstinence anniversary, but I can’t find anything cool. (Am I jumping the gun here? It is eleven days until the one year mark. I know anything can happen. I try not to focus on the numbers.)
I don’t want to walk around in an Overeaters Anonymous t-shirt, but it would be nice to have a subtle necklace or charm for my keys. I’d also like to find some little gifts for friends to help celebrate milestones. I don’t want crosses, roses, or praying hands. There are some nice AA things, but they all have the unity triangle symbol on them. I’ve only seen one OA charm. It is for sale on Ebay. It is nice, but small and somehow not what I was looking for.
It would be great if there was more 12 step stuff that isn’t associated with specific programs. I may have to make some myself. I do want to practice wax carving again. My jeweler friends can cast stuff for me. I better not go down that path until I get my nephew’s Halloween costume made.
The lack of stuff available makes me nervous about OA recovery. I know several people with decades of recovery in OA, but you would never know it is possible from the web. I’ve had to edit my links list often because people seem to drop off the planet. Sometimes the blog disappears entirely, mostly people just stop posting. I keep everyone in my FireFox bookmarks in case they come back. I shouldn’t equate consistent blogging with recovery, it’s just that without new postings I have no idea what’s going on with people.
Blogging has been great for my program. It’s the most consistent writing I ever done. I already have three journals I’ve started and stopped just for OA stuff. I love to buy journals, but rarely write on more than a third of the pages before abandoning them. I love being part of the greater dialog that is created with the cumulative output of blogs. Or maybe I just have an ego driven need to share the minutia of my life. That reminds me, I have to find a new therapist.
My sister’s due date is today. No news so far.
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