Well… it’s about to be birthday number 2 behind these walls. I have been thinking a lot this past week about how I feel in regard to it and honestly… the overwhelming emotion is a feeling of “we are doing it”. We… as in myself and everyone that has been touched by this journey is […]
Thanksgiving. This is by far my favorite time of year. The weather gets crisp and cool… the holiday music… the holiday spirit in the air… whatever it is about the end of Fall into the beginning of winter… it just makes me happy. Now this joyful… holiday cheer is certainly a bit different living behind
Sometimes I have days in here that I look back on either later that night or the day after and just shake my head and laugh. Like who would have thought that would have happened in a place like this? Who would have thought that I would be doing what I am doing in a
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When I kneeled down to write this weekend… thinking back on the past week… there is one conversation that I cannot get out of my head… one conversation that I wasn’t going to write about… that I didn’t want to write about but why write at all if I am not going to genuinely express
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I had a really tough conversation with a close “homeboy” this past week that I just can’t seem to get out of my head. He is getting out in a week and we have been talking… basically for the past year… about what he plans to do… how he is going to re-connect with his
Okay… I just have to say it…. Damn I miss my boys. As I rush to get to one of the 10 or so working computers this weekend to kneel down and write… I can’t help but think about the aspects of this current life that I cannot control and the way in which this
Here we are… another weekend of “server failure” and a mad rush to the available computers during the moves… thankfully the computers are down on the North Yard this time so it is a much shorter walk for us “south-siders”. But given the fact that I have a limited amount of time… I will focus
Small victories. I have touched on this notion numerous times while I have lived behind these walls and these past couple weeks have provided some serious case study for the joy that these small victories can bring to my life. It has also highlighted the importance for myself or anyone coming into these circumstances to
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It seems as though another transitional period has begun at T.I. over the past week and heading into next week… so many guys are heading home or moving on to camp. It is such a strange experience when the releases come in waves like this because there is absolutely no indication that any of these
Well…I have been sent back to “COVID” times (not really THANKFULLY) but as it relates to my computer access… right back to the mad rush to beat the line for the limited amount of keyboards. This time… it is due to a server outage on the South yard causing the entire compound to use the
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