Hello, hope you're doing well! I know I am responding to this years late haha - I don't know if you'll see this - I came across your profile where you mentioned you wrote a whole intro here, so I came to visit it! It's so cool you studied philosophy & psychology on the pre-law track! I'm studying philosophy & neuroscience on the pre-med track, so similar interests haha! Do you have any advice for me? I'd love to hear! As for your question, your blog site looks pretty cool! It's like a collection of your scanned letters with transcriptions; you can click on each individual post to read it & see all the comments! I wish I could attach a picture but I unfortunately am not sure how. Hope you can read & respond soon, but no worries if not!
I don't know if you'll ever see this! But this is such a touching, beautiful poem; you are so incredibly talented. I wish I was able to write as well as you! Keep going!
Not sure if you'll see this; I know I'm responding really late! But the last line of your writing - "some of the people from our past, are worth being present" - it's such a beautiful line. Wishing you all the best.
Hi Eric, I know that your comment here isn't addressed to me specifically, but I just wanted to know that there are people (like me) who enjoy reading your posts (as Mouse from the previous comment mentioned, the website doesn't have a notification feature, which is a bit annoying.)! Keep writing, if it's something you enjoy - I'd love to read!
Hi Tony! We used to be pen pals through the SF Zen Center Prison Correspondence Program and we lost touch. I sent you many letters but I'm guessing you didn't receive them. Maybe you continued sending me letters for a while as well. Are you still incarcerated? I would be very happy to re-connect. I hope you are doing well. I just returned from a silent Buddhist meditation retreat with my oldest child, and I thought of you and tried to look you up, but I can't find an address. Let me know if you receive this and would like to start corresponding again!
Appreciate your repost. While I do not agree with all that you say, or particularly not with the spirit in which you say it, you still make a few decent points, especially with regards to asking I mates themselves what they feel they need in a climate of reform. Of course now, in 2026, it appears ever more likely that this part of the conversation is rather moot anyway, with he ascendance of social conservatism and it's childish reliance on punishment to solve all problems (or to satisfy the populace, at any rate, which obtains votes, which is all that ultimately matters to the political class...though that quaint conceit may be on its way out the window now as well). Take care and please do continue to write. You are seen!
Hello! I appreciate your perspective and agree almost entirely. Unfortunately I suspect you're wrong about the historical low support for capital punishment. though there is no justification for it and all your criticisms are terribly valid, it seems the new political climate will be much more open to state murders than even just a year or so ago. We may be in for some dark times ahead, my friend. If you've not yet read them, let me suggests the novels The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) and The Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler). The latter in particular will blow your mind with its horrific prescience. 😞
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I know that your comment here isn't addressed to me specifically, but I just wanted to know that there are people (like me) who enjoy reading your posts (as Mouse from the previous comment mentioned, the website doesn't have a notification feature, which is a bit annoying.)! Keep writing, if it's something you enjoy - I'd love to read!
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Allyson
Take care and please do continue to write. You are seen!
I appreciate your perspective and agree almost entirely. Unfortunately I suspect you're wrong about the historical low support for capital punishment. though there is no justification for it and all your criticisms are terribly valid, it seems the new political climate will be much more open to state murders than even just a year or so ago. We may be in for some dark times ahead, my friend. If you've not yet read them, let me suggests the novels The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) and The Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler). The latter in particular will blow your mind with its horrific prescience. 😞