June 28, 2025

“Today, there are hundreds of [AA] centers shedding their warm illumination upon the lives of thousands, lighting the dark shoals where the stranded and hopeless lie breaking up -- those fingers of light already stretching to our beachheads in other lands.

Now comes another lighted lamp -- this little newspaper called the Grapevine. May its rays of hope and experience ever fall upon the current of our AA life and one day illumine every dark corner of this alcoholic world.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1944, “Editorial: The Shape of Things to Come”, AA Grapevine (Volume 1, Number 1), Reprinted in The Language of the Heart