I love your art. Wish you weren't having so much trouble, you can talk to me, if you want to, about Cedar Creek lake, and our little lake house adventure. ;-)
So I'm a bit confused on the differences between the programs that allow for early release. And what a full time employee would do for the Graham Vets that is not being done now? What can we do to encourage the prison Vet programs to be acknowledged?
(On a side note, I did send emails to the politicians that visited the veterans program, thanking them for showing an interest.)
... dad says!It's a shame!His dad told me that he likes it there better!The food is better,the guards have more respect for the inmates too.I heard the yard is smaller,and so,he runs more laps around.Each day he runs two hours!But at least I am not worried now.He has his parole somewhere in November.I would have gone,but to travel till there is a big challenge!John,the driver of his dad can't drive us; he had surgery.John looked up the possibilities to get there.I would have to take an Amtrak from Chicago, to the closest stop near Sumner,and that proves to be Effingham.Then a taxi from more than an hour(!)to Lawrence. No motel in Sumner.There I already booked my room,the only one!Keith told me he would bring me each day of the visit(12 days- unlimited visits!)to the prison, at 10 dollars a day.But,I reserved till the 18th of November.Jessica, his lawyer didn't write me the precise date yet!!If the PB is after that date,I have no room!Then I have to change there hotels!But a lot further from Sumner!And will Keith bring me back to Effingham later, when I go back to BE?It's more then an hour drive;there are NO taxis! Pheww.For the'first'time I had liked to be present at his Parole!It is so VERY important to be there!Will I be able to make it? Well,I wish you the very best in your life,Robert. Stay healthy and till soon in a message on the blog. Thanks for your letter & card! ;) x from Rita
hi again.Mom and her smaller brother Lars came on a festive day to visit us and together we went jumping on a blown circus(castle?)Lynn will now attend school in September to the second kindergarten class.Lars will go to a pre-toddler class;he's two and a half.Talking about my past exhibition;my niece Liana and Jozef bought a watercolor painting about the tango.The couple dances.I've a problem to solve.Since a few days I can't ride on my bike.The key broke off in the key hole of my bike- lock!I can't remove it.So,somebody has to cut the lock.I can't go to a store to do that.And on last Sunday I did a march of 17 kilometers and even more,with a group.In a nice region in Antwerp,where I live.A man Joe has a tool to cut that lock.Perhaps I can ask him.Also a bike store could call me for that issue.So,I'll see!The bike stands there already for days in front of our block.It could be even stolen there!2 bikes of mine were stolen in the past!Would you know,I looked up the site of stolen bikes, given by the police... and I found my bike!One can see photos of them.I was so glad!I noticed the tire was flat,and my two bike bags at the side disappeared.They now will call me and I've to prove it's mine.:) I missed my bike so VERY much!:o They moved George to the south east of Illinois,to Sumner,close to Lawrence ville.Since then no word from him!I know through his dad he sent me two letters.They sit on it, his d
hi Robert,I just read your letter to Heather as well;that's always informative for me as well,to know the conditions you are living in.The more we know the better,I would say.I truly hope that your arm is healing properly.I wrote a message to Jen.Well,I've the feeling we become friends.:)A lot happened lately.In July mom had a big feast and my daughter Leslie from CA was there with her family.And I noticed how their two children grew.Adric,9 and Claire,7.The latter even spoke a thank you word at the dinner for her grandmother,in Dutch!I saw photos of Adric making in wood a step and a birdcage.My daughters gave me in March,when I was visiting George a DNA kit.Because a Indian nun in Argentina told me I could have Mongolian roots?She had lived there!But I haven't.I've French/German ancesters,English/Irish ones,(a lot less),then Scandinavian,(even a lot less!)and finally(even more less),from Iberia:Spanish/Portuguese ancestors.I've the grandchild from my sister Joke(Yoke),Roxanne,who became Quinn,a transgender-they live in NY-who also did that same DNA test,and he too has more or less the same all European ancestors.He studies anthropology in a college in Wisconsin.I had in summer(truly very hot here!)a workshop of the chacras,our 7 energetic levels,in Orval in the southern part of BE where people speak French.As you know by now I speak Dutch and a few more languages.love it!During the weeks,I give on Wednesdays an hour Dutch to Nazim,as a volunteer.He's from Afghanistan,and is 25.He lives here for about 3yrs and had already Dutch lessons before,to integrate in my country.He's a very kind person.We get along very well.Two weeks before all seemed alright when we started the course.At the end of it, he told me he had problems.I asked if it was around finding a job here?He also had gotten something on his smartphone during the lesson.He then told me his brother of 16 died!What?!American planes had thrown a bomb in Afghanistan where his family lives(he is here alone)and 8 people died!His brother and his friends were in a house by then.I saw his brother(he looked like a 20yr old;they have barren conditions there!)alive and then in his casket!I was literally in shock!Tears came in my eyes.All I could do was comforting him by holding my hand on his shoulders.Like his mom would have done;she is only 50.He had described with joy all of his siblings and now... he wouln't come the next week.And I took then care for 5 days of Lynn,4 and a half at the coast,in their apartment in Koksijde.That was a very pleasant time with that little girl.The weather was just excellent.we delved a long tunnel from the sea to let water run in,we ate ice cream while we saw a tennis match in a stadium,we worked in the 3 new books, doing games,& learning numbers,also writing them,we went to the library for 10 books she chose(fairy tales),we danced the lambada in our living room,she listened to English and Dutch cd's,we played in the sand,looked at our prints,put shells.xRita
I have only just started reading your post, but your words about being an abolitionist because you detest crime were so clarifying that I wanted to at least start the work of transcribing your words so that as many people as possible could read them. Of everything I've read by scholars and journalists, nothing ever was that clear and concise a description of what abolitionism is about. I look forward to reading and helping to transcribe as much as I can of your work.
An inmate is likely not going to commit suicide, or fails to commit suicide, during active relative program engagements, as the Sound Mind Streamer is a 24-hour a day in-cell program accessible to all inmates by simply turning on their TVs. Especially the younger "all-night program" inmates.
The Content: (music appreciation, creative writing therapy) The primary content is TYPE BEATS instrumental music. This urban perspective music induces creative writing of letters, short stories, raps, song lyrics, etc.
The sonic stylings are generated from the spiritual sources of constructive behavior of innercity youth, even more so for inmates who draw, paint, do beadwork. The expanded arts and crafts that require an artistic focus music backdrop.
This music also provides the soundscape for urban and ethnic dancers within the prison population, where bodies in motion from exercise and dance become meditative, creative, and promotes a new return to constructive attributes of persons. (innercity youth)
When inmates know that other inmates are also tuned into the Sound Mind, it becomes a social environment where no one person feels along, with a low spirit.
To supplement the music appreciation therapy, The Sound Mind Streamer will also feature morale building, educational and informational movies, documentaries, and other ethnic urban perspective visual images of:
a) prominent LGBTQ community leaders (ancient and modern) b) screen savers and wallpaper visuals (relative content, nothing lewd)
ZERO COST TO THE STATE: The free user content is sourced as an open invitational for content donors.
This method ensures that not even the Inmate Welfare Institution Fund will be tapped for funding.
The Sound Mind Streamer drags the oldest California prison into the future for presentation of content and programming, specifically for the constructive engagement for a new generation of a condemned population.
Plan of Action: 1. Pitch Sound Mind to interested condemned inmates, an almost impossible feat due to the multiple separate exercise yard groups and housing locations.
2. Pitch Sound Mind to prison officials, including the religious department, mental health department, education department, and the media center.
3. Pitch Sound Mind to perspective content donors.
4. Create condemned LGBTQ spirituality group to produce and present the launch of The Sound Mind Streamer into active continuous play/timeline programming on a SQTV media center channel.
5. Launch The Sound Mind Streamer.
Lead by creation
Floyd Smith #K-72700 San Quentin State Prison San Quentin, CA 94974
The Sound Mind Streamer (Program Development Proposal)
[Picture of author. He is wearing glasses and has his eyebrows raised. A tiny smile is on his lips.]
By Floyd Smith
Sound Mind 1. The Vision: (ethnographic/urban LGBTQ perspective) a) To create an innerprison streamer of music, movies, documentaries, sporting events, and ethnographic visual content for the engagement of, and for, the spiritual uplift, for the influx of a younger demographic of the condemned population. URBAN LGBTQ.
b) The Sound Mind Streamer is the first ever innerprison content broadcast generated through the San Quentin Prison Media Center cable TV line that is generated from condemned population.
c) The Sound Mind Streamer is also produced and programmed by the first ever LGBTQ spirituality group on condemned row, citing an equal opportunity to participate in spiritual programs within the prison, free from sexual discrimination.
The Program: The Sound Mind Streamer is an in-cell program where any and every inmate at San Quentin State prison can participate by turning their TVs to the designated channel, so that no inmate is denied access to programming.
This program is a paradigm shift from LGBTQ inmates either not having programs and/or being forced to participate in other programs on a "tolerated" basis, or a proselytizing agenda for future conversion into groups that view LGBTQ experiences as "an ABOMINATION", "INFIDELS", and other social subculture demeaning labels existing antithetical to LGBTQ nature.
Production Team: This is not a group setting for people to sit around and talk about how gay they are or to solicit empathy.
The Sound Mind Streamer production team is made up of a cross section of the condemned population to collect related content, building timelines for the presentation of content: 1. LGBTQ persons 2. PFLags, Friends, and parents of 3. Straight allies of
The team's primary function is to provide content that generates dialogue beyond eight people sitting in a group room hidden from the very prison population that requires clarity. This model is "service provided based," specifically for the "crowded closet" community who won't participate in a group setting of old program models.
The Need: Researchable facts conclude that San Quentin State Prison has been designated for the housing and programming of LGBTQ inmates, yet they are the most undeserved in program opportunities designed for LGBTQ perspectives, awareness, education, and information on the prison's general population mainline. It is totally non-existent for the condemned population.
The Sound Mind Streamers in-cell program provides engagement programming without LGBTQ inmates being spit on, beat up, jumped, having urine tossed on them, and/or systematic ostracisms within the institution.
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(On a side note, I did send emails to the politicians that visited the veterans program, thanking them for showing an interest.)
Pheww.For the'first'time I had liked to be present at his Parole!It is so VERY important to be there!Will I be able to make it?
Well,I wish you the very best in your life,Robert.
Stay healthy and till soon in a message on the blog. Thanks for your letter & card! ;)
x from Rita
I missed my bike so VERY much!:o They moved George to the south east of Illinois,to Sumner,close to Lawrence ville.Since then no word from him!I know through his dad he sent me two letters.They sit on it, his d
The Content:
(music appreciation, creative writing therapy)
The primary content is TYPE BEATS instrumental music. This urban perspective music induces creative writing of letters, short stories, raps, song lyrics, etc.
The sonic stylings are generated from the spiritual sources of constructive behavior of innercity youth, even more so for inmates who draw, paint, do beadwork. The expanded arts and crafts that require an artistic focus music backdrop.
This music also provides the soundscape for urban and ethnic dancers within the prison population, where bodies in motion from exercise and dance become meditative, creative, and promotes a new return to constructive attributes of persons. (innercity youth)
When inmates know that other inmates are also tuned into the Sound Mind, it becomes a social environment where no one person feels along, with a low spirit.
To supplement the music appreciation therapy, The Sound Mind Streamer will also feature morale building, educational and informational movies, documentaries, and other ethnic urban perspective visual images of:
a) prominent LGBTQ community leaders (ancient and modern)
b) screen savers and wallpaper visuals (relative content, nothing lewd)
ZERO COST TO THE STATE:
The free user content is sourced as an open invitational for content donors.
This method ensures that not even the Inmate Welfare Institution Fund will be tapped for funding.
The Sound Mind Streamer drags the oldest California prison into the future for presentation of content and programming, specifically for the constructive engagement for a new generation of a condemned population.
Plan of Action:
1. Pitch Sound Mind to interested condemned inmates, an almost impossible feat due to the multiple separate exercise yard groups and housing locations.
2. Pitch Sound Mind to prison officials, including the religious department, mental health department, education department, and the media center.
3. Pitch Sound Mind to perspective content donors.
4. Create condemned LGBTQ spirituality group to produce and present the launch of The Sound Mind Streamer into active continuous play/timeline programming on a SQTV media center channel.
5. Launch The Sound Mind Streamer.
Lead by creation
Floyd Smith #K-72700
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin, CA 94974
(Program Development Proposal)
[Picture of author. He is wearing glasses and has his eyebrows raised. A tiny smile is on his lips.]
By Floyd Smith
Sound Mind 1.
The Vision: (ethnographic/urban LGBTQ perspective)
a) To create an innerprison streamer of music, movies, documentaries, sporting events, and ethnographic visual content for the engagement of, and for, the spiritual uplift, for the influx of a younger demographic of the condemned population. URBAN LGBTQ.
b) The Sound Mind Streamer is the first ever innerprison content broadcast generated through the San Quentin Prison Media Center cable TV line that is generated from condemned population.
c) The Sound Mind Streamer is also produced and programmed by the first ever LGBTQ spirituality group on condemned row, citing an equal opportunity to participate in spiritual programs within the prison, free from sexual discrimination.
The Program:
The Sound Mind Streamer is an in-cell program where any and every inmate at San Quentin State prison can participate by turning their TVs to the designated channel, so that no inmate is denied access to programming.
This program is a paradigm shift from LGBTQ inmates either not having programs and/or being forced to participate in other programs on a "tolerated" basis, or a proselytizing agenda for future conversion into groups that view LGBTQ experiences as "an ABOMINATION", "INFIDELS", and other social subculture demeaning labels existing antithetical to LGBTQ nature.
Production Team:
This is not a group setting for people to sit around and talk about how gay they are or to solicit empathy.
The Sound Mind Streamer production team is made up of a cross section of the condemned population to collect related content, building timelines for the presentation of content:
1. LGBTQ persons
2. PFLags, Friends, and parents of
3. Straight allies of
The team's primary function is to provide content that generates dialogue beyond eight people sitting in a group room hidden from the very prison population that requires clarity. This model is "service provided based," specifically for the "crowded closet" community who won't participate in a group setting of old program models.
The Need:
Researchable facts conclude that San Quentin State Prison has been designated for the housing and programming of LGBTQ inmates, yet they are the most undeserved in program opportunities designed for LGBTQ perspectives, awareness, education, and information on the prison's general population mainline. It is totally non-existent for the condemned population.
The Sound Mind Streamers in-cell program provides engagement programming without LGBTQ inmates being spit on, beat up, jumped, having urine tossed on them, and/or systematic ostracisms within the institution.