palooza

Time and time again, I've mentioned that bingo is comprised of a wonderful community.  Included in that group is Reyna Kilpatrick-Campbell, the founder of Bingo On Purpose. In this episode she talks about her efforts to use bingo as a way to raise money for worthy organizations.

Bingo "Meet and Greets" have been popping up all across the country. Recently, Tonya (aka. Confessions of a Bingo Addict) sponsored one in Houston called Bingo Palooza 2023. This was my first time playing bingo in Texas and boy was it something. Here's a brief rundown of the event.

Rebecca Greene, Whinypaluza Mom, shares the joys and challenges of motherhood.  She brings her rich background of experience working with parents, her insights as a mother and her delightful sense of humor.

Visit https://RebellionDogsPublishing.com for complete show note + links. Time for the tast of a new generation; the Peer2Peer world turns over the reins of stewardship to Generation Y - thank for your service Baby Boomer, it's the Millennial Era now.

This is Episode, Rebellion Dogs Radio # 58, we do an annul collection of what’s new, with AA’s second all-Zoom General Service Conference (USA/Canada), AA World Services, AA Grapevine, and the most recent—the 26th—World General Service Conference, we learn about AA outside the USA and Canada region.

There is 2020 Census Data coming out piecemeal. We will talk this new recovery community era. Millennials, quietly started turning 40-years-old last year—say what? The youngest Millennial is 25 this year. I know, we’re all getting older. They are the largest adult population in America now. Mover over Baby Boomer AA’s; there’s a new sheriff in town, Generation Y will take it from here. This Zoom meeting – zoom conference thing isn’t freaking them out. It’s greener, more time efficient, encourages team work, costs less, they can order shoes and cloths for home deliver during the meeting ... This is right up their alley. 

Maybe that’s why the language of AA - once unchangeable because of it’s hallowed and nostalgic pedigree - is getting a facelift. Even some Bill Wisms are, as I suspect he would encourage, being modernized. Thought AA would never change? Whether that made you glad or sad, we were wrong. This isn’t the 20th century and a new generation has taken the helm.  

Millennials; I see you. If you’re reading–and I know you are—yes, I’m a 1960 baby, I’m a boomer but we had our chance, it isn’t the founder’s generation to blame for a reified basic text, not a new publication of new works by AA Word Services since 1975-two generations ago—the blame for a stuck AA is Baby Boomers. We’re the ones who Bill W talked about when cautioning about fearing needed change:

“The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.”

Bill Wilson July 1965 when he knew he wouldn’t be around to captain the AA ship for long. So what I’m saying is we Boomers had out chance. We proved to no match for our own resistance to change. Millennials, you have the helm; I’m at service and in your debt. 

The COVID pandemic effect has maybe sped up the process of AA getting unstuck. Everyone, everywhere is changing how we live, love and live in recovery;  but demographic data from the 2020 US Census shows that 21st century America was already looking and acting differently and hold different beliefs, that the Christian primacy  nation and recovery rooms of yore.  Millennial stewardship of our meetings and fellowships will have a modern tone. This is their decade and same with the next one. The 20’s of this century will roar with non-violent communication.  Annually, Rebellion Dogs re-calibrates our views based on what the latest statistics tell us about demographics and trends and what bearing this may have on our recovery. This is a popular show every year. 

Our first episode of Artistpalooza, where we talk about the career and legacy of the Detroit legend, Eminem.

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I can never refuse a Higher Palooza!

While there's so much to dislike about a global pandemic, the Zoom-effect on AA, AA's subcultures and the greater peer2peer community as a whole, will likely mark this turning point in our history - for those who survive the pandemic - as ground breaking in the way connection can be maintained online while we're locked down at home. 

One of the hand-down, no argument Five-Star bonuses from a year of living pandemically, is that Higher Palooza is here now, and maybe here to stay. Today we talk to a fraction of the helpful contributors to Higher Palooza #1 through #8:  Thanks to Terry, Annie, Tracy, Bobby and Sally. This was fabulous. 

Five from HP, via zoom from Dublin to Cleveland, we hear about the Palooza past and Higher Palooza future is put squarely at your feet - yep, you and me. Self-supporting is more than we who participate in AA pay our way; it also means we share the duties of involved in running meetings, events and outreach. Higher Palooza isn't just the cost of a Zoom account and website; it's time and talent, too. You got talent? You got time? Higher Palooza could use ya!   

See, I rhymed something with "palooza" twice. That's talent, right? Higher Palooza needs people to find other people to share, hosts and co-hosts, poster makers and web away at website websitery.

But enough about the call to action, for now. Listen to, and enjoy and/or share, the podcast. Visit Freethinkers Cleveland for more Paloozing more of the time: 20 recordings to help you get through this day and the days ahead. It's like a mental/emotional and intellectual check up, from the neck up.  

https://www.ftcleveland.com/higher-palooza HP I though VIII (at time of posting), you’ll find over 20 recordings to download or stream for free and information on upcoming events that promise to be more Higher and more Paloozer.

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Every episode we serve up a dose of music-medicine, borrowing from IndieCan Radio's pool of the best music you've never heard. This week, it's Toronto's Sean Watson Graham and song we mutual-aid types will raise a coffee mug to: Your Life Is a Story 

In this episode, we review the new album releases from 24kGoldn, Justin Bieber, and YBN Nahmir!