One of the hardest parts of this whole journey is discovering and then ultimately accepting the fact that once you are behind these walls… you have very little (if any) control of anything in your life that is outside the gates. It is a tough pill to swallow and one that many guys in here […]
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Interesting revelation over here this week. So… it is my youngest son’s birthday next Tuesday and this has historically been a really hard time for me throughout this journey. I was arrested 17 days before his 1st birthday and then have lived behind these walls for every birthday since then… which has understandably weighed extremely
As I kneel down to write this week and reflect on the past 7 days… I find myself thinking about what happened… what stood out… what caught my attention or held my thoughts and the main ‘lightbulb’ that keeps turning on is simply but genuinely… gratitude. I started the week with a great visit from
There are conversations that I have in here… behind these wired gates that seem so easily penetrated but hold such power over all of our lives… that grab and clamp down… almost taking my breathe away. I had one of these conversation this past week. I have had the pleasure of getting close with one
Weather lockdown?? I think that may be a new one over here at T.I. but that is what we experienced this past weekend. It started raining late Friday night and by the time everyone woke up Saturday morning… we were literally and figuratively… on an island. No phones… no computer… no visiting… no yard… nothing.
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Well this past week was one of those weeks where I look up and all of the sudden… it’s Friday. I always find it interesting when I have weeks such as this one in here… when life just becomes life and there is no overwhelming emotion one way or another… just livin’ the best and
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Here we are… we have entered year 3 of this journey of life behind a fence… this journey of life without life… what a journey it has been and will continue to be. There have been many emotions over the past week… some of which have been positive when I think about how myself and
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I have noticed over the past 6 months or so that one of my new “hats” in here is to be the guy that new guys come to if this is their first time incarcerated to walk the track and try to wrap their head around what they have in store for the next X
Ahhhhh it is good to be back! So a bit of an incident… well the largest incident (by far) since I have lived behind these walls happened last weekend and the whole institution was locked down for multiple days afterward. When something like this happens… it is not simply a situation where they make all
I found myself standing outside one evening this past week… staring toward the San Pedro hills just west of T.I and I couldn’t help but get the all too common thought regarding being so physically close to freedom but so far away out of my head. I was standing there… looking out over the hills
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