Why He Needed a New Experience of Higher Power – Clint H.
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Billings, Montana, 1951. A grandmother opens a door and tells a fourteen-year-old boy his mother died last night, then asks if he's going to school. Clint H. describes this as the moment he stopped breathing deeply and became a "water bug" on the surface of life. He found his breath again in a bottle of vodka and orange juice, eventually descending into the "goopy," foul-smelling rooms of Glendale, California, where he lived in a two-car garage and matched his reflection in a bar mirror—both covered in chili.
Even twenty-four years sober, Clint admits he spent decades trying to manufacture his own power through law school, partnerships, and an "image" that looked like a truck with branches taped to it. It took the wreckage of a collapsed career and a failed marriage to realize he was the common thread in his own disasters. Only by stripping away the "AA slick" and admitting he had taken himself as far as he could go did he find a Higher Power.
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