Talking the Walk : Luminare Press : 9781944733698 : 1944733698 : 10 May 2018 : I started my recovery in a treatment center in June 1995. I "thought" I was a quick study and would get the basics of the program in twenty-eight days and "would have it made." One pivotal day, several weeks into my sponsorship, my sponsor, gave me a notebook. "This is the only thing I am ever going to give you physically in AA. You already have a Big Book." He told me that for six months I should take notes at every AA meeting-not to record any specific person, date, etc. [as] anonymity is the spiritual foundation of AA!. He told me to "Get the truths and the lies about booze...Assume each and every person in AA has a PhD in drinking, self-torture and taking loved ones hostage... They are your teachers, your professors and mentors. Take notes because they have the power to save your life." At first this was just a task to be done suspecting that my sponsor was going to check and "grade me." But I kept takin