Joe, It was great spending time with you yesterday. You are such a blessing. It's a joy seei9ng and hearing what God is doing in your life. You are always in our thoughts and prayers. You are special to us. God has a big plan and I can't wait for the revealing. Love you lots. Aunt Jenny
Ronnie, just to say that your new blog site is great - top of the line for bloggers. Professional. Are you doing ok? What is your penpal situation? Sorry to hear about the demise of things there at UCI, try and keep your spirits up. I wish you the best as we all do, keep posting and take care. One thing they can't take away from you is your mind and spirit, hang on to that - you can do it. Hope your Mother is doing well, share with us how she is.
Hello there. I'm replying to your second blog post. I've read them all in the past hour or two. I believe that fifty years from now America will look at this mass incarceration or punishment without rehabilitation as the great scandal of our day. I don't think the majority of Americans are ready to hear it yet, but as more and more of our loved ones and family members are affected by the "justice system" it will come to be a prime issue.
I encourage you to keep blogging and thank you for all you've written. The corporate run media does not do a good enough job of highlighting the incarceration explosion and we need to hear from people on the inside.
I look forward to reading more of your posts. I also enjoy a good horror book over a romance novel! I'm happy to see you have given your life to God and I will keep you in my prayers that he will keep your spirit up and allow you to be a good witness to your family and those around you.
Hey Uncle Tracy, it's me. I'm sorry I've never written to you, I didn't know that I could write to you like this and you would actually get it. I miss talking to you everyday like I could when I lived in Walterboro. I hope your okay, and that you've been well. Even though it's been awhile I want to reconnect, you will always be part of my family no matter what you've done or haven't done.
Just meeting you, although I have known about you, but certainly not the real you as you offer on this blog. I am sincere in my thanks to you, Brandon, and I will write to you, if that would be okay. More importantly, your positive spirit about the surgeries and rehab is truly heartwarming. I really pray for your full recovery. Ted
I agree. My son did not tell me that he was not a heterosexual until he was an adult. Long after the time when I would have assured him that it did not matter because he was well loved and would never be abandoned for it. Maybe being locked into a prison is a very bad reason for almost completely abandoning the young man. I just hope the man can realize that family really does love him and that it is a short coming on their own part to go months and months without letters or cards. I would not be able to say it long enough or loud enough if I thought my love was not understood as a crater that would like to close around the man and provide warmth and support until the end of time. I am certainly that crater wanting to be able to do something that is not allowed. My visits have been denied for years now and books that I purchased for my son have been returned. It is difficult to understand why I am punished as well as my son by preventing any kind of contact even through glass. The government always has to have their nose in our business and they should be ashamed for keeping a mother from a child no matter how old he is. The mother will not live forever but will have to continue to live alone until death takes over. I miss J so much it physically hurts my heart.
This is a nice post. I live in Oklahoma and came across this and thought I would post something. Writing letters has not been something I like doing so I send letters rarely. I have purchased cards such as birthday for my son who had a birthday on Feb 6 when he turned 26 years old. My son is not able to be home with me. It is a hardship that is way beyond what I can fathom as a fair and just world. He got into trouble a few years ago and has been transferred all over the place while in federal prison. This was such a wonderful place to be able to leave a message for someone who is in need of some care and attention. I am sure your family - mother especially - would like to be there every day. I know from my experience that it is difficult to get through each and every day and to maintain any kind of relationships with members of your family when there are so many years left before a son can be seen by his mother. I hope you can write to your family very often. I know they miss the letters when they do not arrive in the mailbox. Take care. dp
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I encourage you to keep blogging and thank you for all you've written. The corporate run media does not do a good enough job of highlighting the incarceration explosion and we need to hear from people on the inside.
Please take care of yourself.
I look forward to reading more of your posts. I also enjoy a good horror book over a romance novel! I'm happy to see you have given your life to God and I will keep you in my prayers that he will keep your spirit up and allow you to be a good witness to your family and those around you.
Looking forward to learning more about you!
AND WHY HAVEN'T YOU CALLED???????!!
LOVE YOU TONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mom