I have subscribed to your posts. I found this blog on my travels around the net and I'm fascinated by the posts. Thank you for your brutal honesty here, it must have been difficult for such an apparently hardened guy to be so vulnerable and open. I want you to know that people are reading your stuff and thinking about you. You inspired me today.
I'm glad I found this blog, i read an essay on "the huffington post" which lead me to "voices from solitary" which lead me here. I'm really enjoy reading all the posts I only wish they had a date and time. I'm sorry about your friend, my heart goes out to the people writing these entries. I'm fascinated and while I know something went wrong in your lives I can't help but want to give you all a hug and tell you, people out here are thinking about you and sending you love.
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. If I remember correctly, you don't have access to the internet; however, when you do, you might be interested in checking out the Warrior Writers Project. It's a way for ex-soldiers, many of whom have joined IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War), to cope with PTSD and their feelings about their role in the war.
Hi Robert! You asked this: Why is it is so important for the gays to be married? I can ask you this: Why would it be important to you to marry the woman you love? For me it's to show the world that we belong to each other, to have the right to visit her when she would have to be in hospital and make important decisions about our life and all the other things married couples have the right to do or to get. It's not just to prevent loneliness, because I wasn't lonely the last 13 years with her not married. It's a question about to have the same rights like the straight people.
Fortunately I live in Europe and here gays can marry each other.
I read all your posts. I'm glad for you that you have such supporting family members and friends. Lucky you! There are so many in prison who don't have what you have. I think you know this. I wish you all the best and please keep on fighting for your daughter. Some day she will thank you for that you cared about her and sent her all these letters. I'm sure that she already does. It's hard for a teenager to handle disappointments in life. But she will grow up and than she will want to know what kind of person her dad is.
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. I take a book with me everywhere in case I have to wait for a bus or a train. You never know when you're going to be stuck somewhere, even outside of prison.
As you will read this today, my love, I will write you right away.
I only can hope you're doing fine!;-))))
In the meantime my letter for extended visits are sent a time ago. They''ll let me know at Gwen's! Wonder? 6hrs is a long time to sit, eh!! I can see us sitting there again, Georgie! ;-)
Till know I haven't received letters from you for a month and more! What happened? I told your dad. :-o So, I do not know your answer on me coming to America... As I was writing (hope you got my letters!)I'm visiting you not too late (around 10 or 11 o'clock, depending if I get the 6 hrs?) on the 21st of June, ok? Be there!
As for now I focus today on my writings for the jury of the writing course! Still a lot to do! They have to be in the 6th of June.
Mom shortened my Argentinian curtains (yellow) and I still have to hang them in the kitchen, for the coming summer...; well, it's still fresh here for the time of year!! Is the weather warm there? If you write, you can do so to Gwen, ok? I fly on the 18th of June. With US Airways. I stay one night in Chicago and take the train to Galesburg on the 19th.
Big news here! Most probably Philip was accepted in Sweden? For 4 yrs that would be. So mom also can visit them! She is glad! I am too! ;-) Leslie thinks of having a 3rd child! Leslie told mom she is an adventurer... from whom she does have this?? mmm...
Mom has a cruise in sight for August; to Scotland, Sweden, and Chetland (?) Islands. Her surgery will follow after the voyage. :-)))
I got a book on the Baltic countries, George. For free, with the A-card. I will send it to you! It's in English. For as we go! ;-)
Jessica would see why you couldn't write me letters? She is waiting for the approvement for your future job at your father's ex-employer.
How is TTall doing actually? Give him a hug while you get several hugs from me now! xxx for my sweetie, from Rita
all I can do is hoping you are doing fine. :-) Wish we could speak right now.
In the meantime i wrote you a letter, i surely hope it arrives well. Once i get copied a photo of mine, I'll send it to you, ok? You have a nice writing, Bob.
I am busy writing my writings for the jury. This course:'Literary Creation', I won! ;-)) Still a lot to do! I was busy late at night yesterday.
On the 18th of June I will fly to Illinois, visiting my friend George in Illinois. (in prison). 6 days in June and 6 days in July. I asked for extended visits? Perhaps I do get them? Do you get visits, Bob?
He writes on a blog, like you; some can answer.. others like you and him, cannot.
I didn't get a letter from him for more then a month! So bizar! Especially because he knows i'm visiting!! Is it because he writes things on his blog as an activist? I've not a clue...
For you here some sayings, Bob!
'We see things not as they are, but as how we are'-Anais Nin, French writer
'Intuition is a quality that doesn't explain anything, but only shows the way' -Florence Scovel Shinn, American metaphysic
'To keep a diary is a voyage to the inner life'- Christina Baldwin, American writer
Bob,all what you can do today, do not delay it for tomorrow. Make the best of your day!
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You asked this: Why is it is so important for the gays to be married?
I can ask you this: Why would it be important to you to marry the woman you love? For me it's to show the world that we belong to each other, to have the right to visit her when she would have to be in hospital and make important decisions about our life and all the other things married couples have the right to do or to get.
It's not just to prevent loneliness, because I wasn't lonely the last 13 years with her not married. It's a question about to have the same rights like the straight people.
Fortunately I live in Europe and here gays can marry each other.
I read all your posts. I'm glad for you that you have such supporting family members and friends. Lucky you! There are so many in prison who don't have what you have. I think you know this.
I wish you all the best and please keep on fighting for your daughter. Some day she will thank you for that you cared about her and sent her all these letters. I'm sure that she already does. It's hard for a teenager to handle disappointments in life. But she will grow up and than she will want to know what kind of person her dad is.
Keep on writing this blog! I will read.
:)
Kat
I only can hope you're doing fine!;-))))
In the meantime my letter for extended visits are sent a time ago. They''ll let me know at Gwen's! Wonder? 6hrs is a long time to sit, eh!! I can see us sitting there again, Georgie! ;-)
Till know I haven't received letters from you for a month and more! What happened? I told your dad. :-o So, I do not know your answer on me coming to America...
As I was writing (hope you got my letters!)I'm visiting you not too late (around 10 or 11 o'clock, depending if I get the 6 hrs?) on the 21st of June, ok? Be there!
As for now I focus today on my writings for the jury of the writing course! Still a lot to do! They have to be in the 6th of June.
Mom shortened my Argentinian curtains (yellow) and I still have to hang them in the kitchen, for the coming summer...; well, it's still fresh here for the time of year!!
Is the weather warm there?
If you write, you can do so to Gwen, ok? I fly on the 18th of June. With US Airways. I stay one night in Chicago and take the train to Galesburg on the 19th.
Big news here! Most probably Philip was accepted in Sweden? For 4 yrs that would be. So mom also can visit them! She is glad!
I am too! ;-) Leslie thinks of having a 3rd child! Leslie told mom she is an adventurer... from whom she does have this?? mmm...
Mom has a cruise in sight for August; to Scotland, Sweden, and Chetland (?) Islands. Her surgery will follow after the voyage. :-)))
I got a book on the Baltic countries, George. For free, with the A-card. I will send it to you! It's in English. For as we go! ;-)
Jessica would see why you couldn't write me letters? She is waiting for the approvement for your future job at your father's ex-employer.
How is TTall doing actually? Give him a hug while you get several hugs from me now! xxx for my sweetie, from Rita
all I can do is hoping you are doing fine. :-)
Wish we could speak right now.
In the meantime i wrote you a letter, i surely hope it arrives well. Once i get copied a photo of mine, I'll send it to you, ok?
You have a nice writing, Bob.
I am busy writing my writings for the jury. This course:'Literary Creation', I won! ;-))
Still a lot to do!
I was busy late at night yesterday.
On the 18th of June I will fly to Illinois, visiting my friend George in Illinois. (in prison).
6 days in June and 6 days in July. I asked for extended visits? Perhaps I do get them?
Do you get visits, Bob?
He writes on a blog, like you; some can answer.. others like you and him, cannot.
I didn't get a letter from him for more then a month! So bizar! Especially because he knows i'm visiting!! Is it because he writes things on his blog as an activist? I've not a clue...
For you here some sayings, Bob!
'We see things not as they are, but as how we are'-Anais Nin, French writer
'Intuition is a quality that doesn't explain anything, but only shows the way' -Florence Scovel Shinn, American metaphysic
'To keep a diary is a voyage to the inner life'- Christina Baldwin, American writer
Bob,all what you can do today, do not delay it for tomorrow. Make the best of your day!
A big hug from Rita :-)