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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Happy Father’s Day weekend to all the Dad’s out there… especially the ones behind the gates or about to be behind the gates. It is certainly a unique time of year for guys in here… elicits so many emotions… memories… wishes… regrets… smiles and tears. But it also provides an opportunity to reflect on the
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Communication. I planned on writing about how important communication with the outside world is for guys in here this week but fittingly… given my living situation… our computer access has been completely denied for most of the week. And even now… as I kneel down to write this (Sunday Morning)… I am limited to 5
The Republican candidate (possibly the leading candidate in general) for the Presidency of the United States of America is a convicted felon. Now… before I get in too deep… I am in no way throwing stones as I kneel here and type this from my glass house… but between the chatter between the guys in
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I stand back… as does everyone else in the room because it is impossible not to notice… and give him some space to let him go through whatever is happening on the other side of that phone. Eventually he lets the phone go… just drop from his ear… hanging from the phone itself… and he
Well… I kneel down to wrap up a week of lovely lock downs over here at the beach. The week started out normal but by Tuesday afternoon… a combination of standard prison “incidents” mixed with “Officer Appreciation Week” caused the compound to be locked down most of the week. I was unaware that the BOP
Moments of joy. I am constantly seeking these ever elusive genuine moments of bliss behind the gates and when I witness one of the other guys having his “moment”… ironically… it transports me into one as well. I think the reality of life incarcerated is such a bleak and gray existence most of the time…
I was having a conversation with one of the older guys in here this past week… he is leaving in June after serving 9+ years… and he was talking to me about things he has learned and more specifically… aspects of life in here that he wants me to either adopt or stop doing. There
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