They can knock you down but they can’t keep you down! This week has been a lesson in understanding… internalizing and believing that there is always light at the end of the tunnel… as long as we keep walking. After an extremely hard week… this week has allowed me to see that light and walk […]
Man… this week was extremely hard. Guys tell me all of the time that there are only a few things that can happen inside these walls that can cause more stress or make your time “harder” than when something happens outside these walls in your real life. And they are not lying. Things happen in
This week started out especially rough with yet another mind-numbingly horrific elementary school shooting in Nashville, TN. I just cannot wrap my head around the insanity of these shootings. The astronomical amount of them… the age of the victims… the horrible nightmares I have (and I am sure many others have) about it touching our
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A job well done. It makes you feel good… makes you feel accomplished… as if you fulfilled whatever “purpose” you were supposed to fulfill today. I have been thinking about this concept throughout the week as I continue the new gig and find that my days disappear in a flash even though they should be
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New Year (well as far as my “anniversary” goes at least)…. New job! “Chef Hollywood” (as I am called) is now working as a Chef for the officers in the “OM” aka The Officer Mess Hall. I just started the new position this week and so far… it is fantastic. I had no idea this
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Well… that’s one year guys. Absolutely surreal. Never in my wildest dreams (or fears to be more accurate) would I EVER have imagined that I would be in federal prison… EVER. But here we are and I have decided that I am going to look at this milestone (and the future milestones) as an anniversary.
Control. The elusive notion that we all seem to try to grasp and implement into our lives at every little facet but the thing that seems to evade our grasp at every turn. And behind these walls… just forget about it. I have been struggling the past couple weeks with my lack of “control” as
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This week is dedicated to an incredible book that I was sent called “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi. Man – what an amazing journey of life lessons through a heartbreaking but uplifting and immensely insightful true story about Paul’s life. I highly recommend that you guys check it out… just emotionally prepare yourself
I had an interesting idea this past week during one of my “homeboys” birthday parties (I know… I will explain). Whenever one of the guys has a birthday in here… the rest of the crew gets together and buys ingredients to make a “team meal” and we all get together outside on the basketball court
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Cool experience this week… I was working in Psychology and I got into a conversation with one of the Psy-D interns that is doing her residency here at T.I. We sat and talked for almost 2 hours and for those couple hours… I was no longer in prison. I was having the type of conversation
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