September 26 – Restoring What Was Broken

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 26, 2026 · 13m · transcript

Bill takes his first solo turn behind the mic and starts with the Second Step, pushing past the pop culture idea of insanity toward the Big Book's own definition, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. He tells a story on himself worth hearing in full. A man showed up to a service event looking rough, mismatched shoes and all, and asked whether the food had nuts in it. Bill's first instinct was quiet judgment, until he caught himself and realized the man wasn't confused at all. He'd simply been restored to sanity around his own allergy long before Bill had been…