Well… it has certainly been an eventful week over here at T.I…. Storms…Program shifting events… eye opening “revelations” from these events… lessons learned along the way. Man… let me start from the beginning. As most of you likely saw on the news last weekend… Hurricane Hilary was heading right for LA. Now this type of […]
This week… I wanted to share a little “day in the life” story… Over the course of this journey I have been pleasantly surprised time and time again by the ways in which guys in here find their light within the darkness. Most of the time… as I have written about… it coincides with a
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I had been going back and forth throughout the end of the week in regard to what I wanted to write… landing on a couple different topics that seemed to resonate with me but nothing that jumped immediately into first place. I thought that I decided Saturday morning but after discussing with my wonderfully wise
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My oldest starts Kindergarten tomorrow! Okay… I will start with the selfish banter that has been consuming my thoughts this past week. I want to be there… I want to be there so f*cking badly. I want to wake up early and have a special breakfast ready for him in the morning. I want to
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T.I. We have a problem! I woke up Saturday morning just as I always do on the weekends… well rested… slept in until almost 7am… it isn’t too hot yet so the sun shining in through the window is a welcome addition to the room… all is well in room 15. Lets start our day.
“What is that?” I think as I get closer to this brownish/gold round object on the floor of the dining room as I finish mopping Friday afternoon at work. As I get closer and look down… I realize that resting right by the salad bar is a heads up penny. A penny. An object that
This week I have been mentally consumed by two drastically different notions… 1 (the far lesser of the 2) – it is hot. And 2 – I miss my boys faces. Let’s start with #1… It is hot and when it is hot… it is very hot behind these walls. Thankfully… because T.I. is right
Rule number 1 for federal inmates… get comfortable being uncomfortable because just when you start to feel like you have it all figured out… the Feds have other plans for you. Case and point… I open my eyes early Sunday morning to loud shuffling outside of my door in the hallway of the unit. There
Gratitude. I have been absolutely filled with it this week. I am not 100% sure if it is just the stars aligning in a way beyond my comprehension or the fact that I was able to talk to my boys for the full 15 minutes the last 4 times that I have called (this is
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Well… another week and another lesson over here at T.I… and this one needs some backstory… so here we go… It was 8:45pm on Wednesday night… I had just finished everything that I needed to get done for the night… worked out… ate…. showered and just sat down in the TV room to wrap up
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