I’m just sitting down in my room after a shower last Sunday night… winding down from the day and setting up the menu for the week ahead when one of the “homeboys” walks into the room…. “I am a 15 minute Father”… he says as he sits down in the chair opposite me. “My son […]
I have a little tradition on the weekends. I wake up about 30 minutes before the sun is going rise (I listen to an AM radio station before bed that tells me the weather and when the sun will rise and set the next day. I know… strange. But it always makes me think of
The score is 0 – 0. It’s almost 8:40am and has been this way for about 35 minutes now but the TV room is electric. Every seat is taken and all eyes are glued to the center TV where the Gold medal game for Woman’s soccer is unfolding. Every single time the ball approaches either
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I was watching a segment on TV this past Thursday about a futuristic technology that would have the ability to implant memories into our minds’ so that we genuinely and fully believe we have experienced something or learned something that we have not fully experienced past the participation in the “implantation process”. The segment theoretically
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And just like that… another month has passed. I have touched on it before but the obsession with time in here would make one be inclined to think that it would crawl by at a snail’s pace but for whatever reason… you blink and it is Friday again. I guess that is a good thing
Okay. So crazy things happen in here seemingly on a daily basis but sometimes… oh man… sometimes something happens that makes me shake my head and think… “Okay… I have truly seen it all now.” Let me take you back to this past week… There is a guy that lives a few “houses down the
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Let me put you up on game real quick (as the “homeboys” would say in here). Cardinal rule while you are living behind these walls… ‘If they are good…. You are good’. I cannot express how important this notion is to remember and how incredibly true it is as it relates to your mental health
I received a real gift in the mail this past week. Let me preface this by genuinely stating that any pictures that I am lucky enough to get in here are massive gifts in themselves as they allow me to escape my reality for a bit while I examine every detail of every picture… vicariously
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Well… I feel as though I have accomplished something as this week comes to a close. I finished what is known in here as “Non-Res” aka Non-Residential RDAP (Drug and Alcohol Program that you do prior to the bigger residential program) after 6 months of meetings, homework, reading, discussions, presentations and much more introspection and
“Hollywood. It is the Nineteenth of June… we are free my boy… well I’m not free but you know what I mean… it is time to get this mothaf*cka on and crackin… Bingo time!!” This is how I started my day this past Wednesday… Juneteenth. I was sipping coffee in my room around 630am and
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