Addiction Recovery: A road less traveled

Movies from my childhood One of my favorite movies growing up was Disney's "Lion King." It's a familiar story modeled after Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Simba, the young hero, is framed by Scar, his uncle, for the death of Mufasa, Simba's father, and Scar's brother. After Mufasa's death, Scar encourages Simba to run away, so he does. In so doing, Simba ran from his past. After running and coming in contact with two other characters, Timon and Pumbaa, Simba runs into a "lion" from his past: Nala. Growing up, Simba and Nala were friends. More importantly, Nala knew that Simba was the rightful king. The song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" is sung after Simba and Nala reunite. During this song, Simba says, "So many things to tell her. But how to make her see. The truth about my past? Impossible! She'd turn away from me." In the next stanza, Nala sings: "He's holding back, he's hiding. But what, I can

Maps are cool! I loved being a boy scout growing up. I was part of an independent scout troop. We went everywhere! It was an amazing experience for me.  One of the merit badges that I enjoyed was the orienteering merit badge. This merit badge, among other things, introduced young men to the skill of using a map to help them get from point A to point B. The first step in understanding how to use a map was to orient the map. This meant using a compass to identify which direction was north, orienting the map accordingly, and then taking the appropriate bearings.  My dad and I practice using the compass a lot, along with using a compass. We started with a map of our neighborhood. Dad would map out a route, and I would need to use our map to go from point to point until I arrived at the final location. Gradually, we traded out the neighborhood map with a topographical map of different areas were would explore.  On one specific scout camp, I recall our leaders taking us up the canyon we were