to heap praise on anyone courageous enough to make a start. “I just need help,” said the troubled person on my laptop.Īt that, the small streaming videos of members across the top of the Zoom interface burst into applause.
is about bodies in space - hugs, pats on backs, a tissue when you need it. I caught my breath to see someone so addled, probably still drunk or high, make this disclosure to a crowd of internet strangers who couldn’t, not really, look one another in the eye. members, I found I needed the meetings more than ever when the coronavirus quarantine canceled the in-person ones.īut internet A.A., at first glance, was uncanny. This was my first online experience of the fellowship that has been a cornerstone of my life since 2011. “I have several hours clean,” the person said, grinning and lurching screen left.
In a Zoom meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous last week, a waifish figure with rheumy eyes assumed the center of the computer screen.
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