Part one Hello Antoine. Hope you and those who you love are well. We are good here. My husband has gone to Kashmir for a month to visit his family. So it’s pretty quiet. When he visits his family he fills up suitcases full of clothes shoes, toiletries and stuff, He’s like a Sears and Roebucks! He seems to forget we are shopping in thrift stores and he’s returning hone like the prodigal son full of stuff they probably won’t use. Gentrification is when you, for example like me, live in a poor or crime ridden area. Then rich people come and buy up houses cheap. Then when you want to move house, they bump up the rent so you can’t live there anymore, so you have to move. Then rich people come and start living in the area and bring their coffee shops, restaurants all that. Then the area changes. It can happen within a year. So all the poor people have to go find some place else to live and die in. It’s quite insidious. Buy a house for say sixty thousand dollars, and in a year same house two hundred thousand dollars. The worst example I have personally seen of gentrification was in Brixton North `London. Rich people came bought a housing block. Renewed it, built a playground, put bars around the playground and refused to let kids from the council estate nearby (social housing) wouldn’t let them in. TV came filmed it and embarrassed them into letting the kids play together. Regarding fiscal questions. One UK pound is One dollar thirty cents. Welfare rates, or benefits as they are known here start at about sixty dollars a week. Child benefit for each child is eighty dollars a month. Well it was until four years ago. Now you can only claim for two kids, they won’t pay for any more. In Ireland there’s no child benefits. My aunt who had the loads of kids did it on a mans paycheque. That’s how it used to be for everyone. Now you need two paycheque to cover rent and incidentals like food and electricity GED is a great idea. We don’t have that here, We have end of high school exams, then you go to college, then onto university. I went to university, studied linguistics and English. Now you got to pay to go to university. In UK jails it’s free though. My mum used to say my house looks like a museum, all my travelling buying statues and stuff for the walls. I travelled a lot when I was young. Easy to cross continents when you are located in the UK. Don’t travel now though. I would like to visit Korea. I like that culture. A few Korean people in London. Lots of restaurants, Don’t like the kimchi much! I’m into Jolly Ranchers sours at the moment, there’s a shop a town away that sells American foods like pop tarts and Swedish fish. God does his magic in dreams. Remember the story of Jospeh who was enslaved by his hateful brothers and he had the dreams that the Pharoah listened to, about famine etc. Part two to follow
I am her mother and she is a demon. She burn three house .one In East orange, nj..on Telford street Halstead st.She's a dangerous person and will kill again. Tried to burn us up.Started a fire on Tremont ave and sat there and waited for us to burn the death. But God woke me up. At mrs. Yvonne Kegler apartment. Asleep. I save her and her family. After the fire was put out.We were homeless. Mrs. Kegler brother would not see me out doors..we was in the basement. The next day we was left in the house salvage some of our things. After loading the car and was heading to the building. From a distance I saw a fire truck, she set that place on fire. I realized she was setting fires. 4 different places she sat on fire.This child started doing awful things very young.
My dearest.... I’m sorry it’s been this long since I said anything (hope they can send this tomorrow) - either here or sending a note/card. I’ve been pretty sick - bad flu - and haven’t even ventured out of the house until today - I went to church. Doing anything exhausts me - I came home and went straight to bed I made myself sign on to send you this because I know it upsets you when you hear nothing... I love you sweetheart. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when you write about the past years - the memories. I think of them also - oh, I know we fought - hard, sometimes (though never physically) but those aren’t the times I remember. I remember the times of joy - with the kids and without them...how close we were... Sorry - this is all for now - I’ll try to send a card this week - even if I don’t, know that I love you and my thoughts are with you All my love - your Jeannie
Hello Antoine One of the benefits, health wise of your ‘gated community’, in fact many areas where people are confined is, after a while your body builds up extra immunity. Because bacteria can travel, mainly through hands and when we touch the lining of our noses or other orifices. After a while our systems start to fight and expect a fight. So a flu germ that might hit you outside would fail because you have spent years double fighting off these things. Japan has the right idea. In Japan it is illegal to leave your house without wearing a face mask when you have a cold. I avoid touching handles and handrails when I am in London or somewhere people heavy. It’s your hands really that are the problem. The phone thing, yep definately a problem. Make a home spun sanitiser if you can’t get one in the commissary. Saline, hot water melt salt in it. Let it cool down. Better still anything with some alcohol deodorant or after shave. If you can get into the kitchen, the spice turmeric, it’s orange. Mix in hot water, let it cool, great wound cleaner, and will kill off topical bacteria. Put a plastic bag over the phone receiver and leave it open where you talk and hear. I would have thought sanitizer would be available there in some form. Some people have trouble with kindness. To some people it is a character flaw. Small unseen acts work better. Like you said, showing them God is at work. Soon be spring, flu season will be gone. Got to get your head into the parole mindset. Need you outside. Your done being an inmate. Going to be an out mate! All the best to you and those you love. T
Hello father long time, no speak. If you really think Connecticut prison system is scrip corrupt? They don't have "new" tech in the prisons down here and they're not even trying to get it! Yes your oldest son has been in the system. We can't even degrees in these prison. Only a ged. They don't even teach trade skills. Its sad. How can a father of 4 afford to raise his kids with a ged and no trade skills. Gd thing I'm intelligent!
Hello Douglas. I think I posted it early January. Not sure. I’m going to attempt the JPay thing, my kid will have to set it up because I don’t know much about the internet. You definately shoulda received my snail mail before the blog post, as the blog post seems to take two week before it appears. Perhaps the office staff at your facility are not up to speed when it comes to reading and distribute the letter that receive Hopefully we will link up s0on. T
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Hello Antoine.
Hope you and those who you love are well. We are good here. My husband has gone to Kashmir for a month to visit his family. So it’s pretty quiet. When he visits his family he fills up suitcases full of clothes shoes, toiletries and stuff, He’s like a Sears and Roebucks! He seems to forget we are shopping in thrift stores and he’s returning hone like the prodigal son full of stuff they probably won’t use.
Gentrification is when you, for example like me, live in a poor or crime ridden area. Then rich people come and buy up houses cheap. Then when you want to move house, they bump up the rent so you can’t live there anymore, so you have to move. Then rich people come and start living in the area and bring their coffee shops, restaurants all that. Then the area changes. It can happen within a year. So all the poor people have to go find some place else to live and die in. It’s quite insidious. Buy a house for say sixty thousand dollars, and in a year same house two hundred thousand dollars.
The worst example I have personally seen of gentrification was in Brixton North `London. Rich people came bought a housing block. Renewed it, built a playground, put bars around the playground and refused to let kids from the council estate nearby (social housing) wouldn’t let them in. TV came filmed it and embarrassed them into letting the kids play together.
Regarding fiscal questions. One UK pound is One dollar thirty cents. Welfare rates, or benefits as they are known here start at about sixty dollars a week. Child benefit for each child is eighty dollars a month. Well it was until four years ago. Now you can only claim for two kids, they won’t pay for any more. In Ireland there’s no child benefits. My aunt who had the loads of kids did it on a mans paycheque. That’s how it used to be for everyone. Now you need two paycheque to cover rent and incidentals like food and electricity
GED is a great idea. We don’t have that here, We have end of high school exams, then you go to college, then onto university. I went to university, studied linguistics and English. Now you got to pay to go to university. In UK jails it’s free though.
My mum used to say my house looks like a museum, all my travelling buying statues and stuff for the walls. I travelled a lot when I was young. Easy to cross continents when you are located in the UK. Don’t travel now though. I would like to visit Korea. I like that culture. A few Korean people in London. Lots of restaurants, Don’t like the kimchi much! I’m into Jolly Ranchers sours at the moment, there’s a shop a town away that sells American foods like pop tarts and Swedish fish.
God does his magic in dreams. Remember the story of Jospeh who was enslaved by his hateful brothers and he had the dreams that the Pharoah listened to, about famine etc.
Part two to follow
I got your letter, did you get mine? I am not in good place right now, and it will stay like that until at least april. Take care, ju
I’m sorry it’s been this long since I said anything (hope they can send this tomorrow) - either here or sending a note/card. I’ve been pretty sick - bad flu - and haven’t even ventured out of the house until today - I went to church. Doing anything exhausts me - I came home and went straight to bed I made myself sign on to send you this because I know it upsets you when you hear nothing...
I love you sweetheart. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when you write about the past years - the memories. I think of them also - oh, I know we fought - hard, sometimes (though never physically) but those aren’t the times I remember. I remember the times of joy - with the kids and without them...how close we were...
Sorry - this is all for now - I’ll try to send a card this week - even if I don’t, know that I love you and my thoughts are with you
All my love - your Jeannie
One of the benefits, health wise of your ‘gated community’, in fact many areas where people are confined is, after a while your body builds up extra immunity. Because bacteria can travel, mainly through hands and when we touch the lining of our noses or other orifices. After a while our systems start to fight and expect a fight. So a flu germ that might hit you outside would fail because you have spent years double fighting off these things.
Japan has the right idea. In Japan it is illegal to leave your house without wearing a face mask when you have a cold. I avoid touching handles and handrails when I am in London or somewhere people heavy. It’s your hands really that are the problem.
The phone thing, yep definately a problem. Make a home spun sanitiser if you can’t get one in the commissary. Saline, hot water melt salt in it. Let it cool down. Better still anything with some alcohol deodorant or after shave. If you can get into the kitchen, the spice turmeric, it’s orange. Mix in hot water, let it cool, great wound cleaner, and will kill off topical bacteria. Put a plastic bag over the phone receiver and leave it open where you talk and hear. I would have thought sanitizer would be available there in some form.
Some people have trouble with kindness. To some people it is a character flaw. Small unseen acts work better. Like you said, showing them God is at work.
Soon be spring, flu season will be gone. Got to get your head into the parole mindset. Need you outside. Your done being an inmate. Going to be an out mate!
All the best to you and those you love.
T
I think I posted it early January. Not sure. I’m going to attempt the JPay thing, my kid will have to set it up because I don’t know much about the internet.
You definately shoulda received my snail mail before the blog post, as the blog post seems to take two week before it appears. Perhaps the office staff at your facility are not up to speed when it comes to reading and distribute the letter that receive
Hopefully we will link up s0on.
T