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And just like that… another birthday passes behind these gates. This one was different though…. in a good way. As I woke up the morning of my birthday… I felt good… I felt the warmness of gratitude that has bled over from the week prior and I thought to myself… “today is going to be […]

Thanksgiving was good this year. I woke up with a breath of peace. A massive sense of gratitude and that lovely feeling of… just knowing… believing… that everything is going to be alright. It must be said that under these emotions was the ever present nagging of missing a piece of myself… as if I

I will not get too deep into the weeds on the election or my feelings regarding the outcome of said election because that is not the protagonist in the movie this week. But what I will say is that the outcome put a massive mirror up to the American people… to our values… to our

I would not consider myself a “handy” man. Well lets not single me out… no one would consider me a handy – man. I was the guy would had absolute zero shame in “calling a guy” as opposed to figuring out how to handle said home project with these paws of mine. But… enter this

I don’t know if it would be considered confirmation bias or possibly some form of the ‘recent-cy effect’ but there have been numerous occasions in here where I have a conversation with someone and then at some point in the near future… I am reading an article or a book and ‘BAM’… there it is.

I started to write something… then I deleted it and started thinking about something else to dive into this week but here I am… back at the original starting line because I can’t stop thinking about and day dreaming about it… love. The reason that I deleted my first pass was because I started feeling

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

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

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