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Rita,
Can't recall if I responded to your last email of Feb. I've been so busy and down in the dumps (life, liberty, and love). I don't understand why we're so self-destructive and bent on hurting each other. I blame the government's ineptitude at running the government. The malevolence is rooted at very perilous depths. History has prove that we are constantly at war with ourselves—fighting our demons. Whether it is loving ourselves too much or not enough, we either hurt ourselves or other people in our paths. We lack equilibrium, and our compassion is getting beaten out of us. The media bombards us with one tragic news report after another about the crime and violence in the world. They've made it so bad that people are terrified to reach out to help their neighbor.
My freedom continues to elude me, as the chains of this corrupt system holds fast what it has claimed. My patience is wearing thin as one excuse after another impedes my forward momentum. Though my faith sustains me, these chains grow heavier.
Love is driving me up the wall. Because of my incarceration, I am not free to love anyone or build a meaningful relationship. I feel like I'm clawing my way up the walls of a deep pit, and there's only fleeting images at the other end. I keep looking up for a lifeline, but only dirt falls into my eyes.
I believe that this year holds great promise for me. Solitary confinement has been exposed as a detriment to our mental and physical health. The administration is scrambling to find a way to make it work (in-house psychologist, special needs wing, and sensitivity training for guards). I've been in solitary confinement for 20 years because of my sentence. There's 128 of us in this facility. More across the state. We've discovered that this confinement is illegal and are filing suit for relief.
Hope to hear from you again soon.
Peace,
Daniel
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I was so very glad you contacted me again!:) At the point I had to look again to your profile and read and see all you wrote in the past.I wrote to a few other inmates on this blog, and there are some who never respond, so...
As I lately wrote to another Daniel on d/r. I can only write letters to him on his address, no emailing.He's a prisoner in LA. Louisiana and I found him on this blog too.I guess he never got any answer on the blog, since 2013.:(( My letter to him was such a surprise!
The whole time I felt so happy because I reached out to a person in need.As you say yourself,Daniel,we feel better when helping people.And you only know when you do.:)
To you now.
20 yrs in solitary confinement... not to be believed...:o
At least you see people when you go to a shower or on the yard, Daniel?It is very sad to hear nowadays such barbaric conditions exist!.. I hope as you do, they're working at it,and more humanity comes in its place.
I am impressed by your positivism and your belief!Never doubt to help others; the words you speak will be forgotten within time.. but the actions you took, won't; people recall how good it felt when you helped them.
Humanity,art,charity,justice,people,life,music,poetry,the world we live in;all subjects that are of my uttermost interest, Daniel!!So,tell me things about those? I am all ear!:)))
Did I wrote you I am an artist?I was following courses at an Academy of Art in Belgium,(BE),for 7 yrs!Drawing and oil painting.When before that I lived in Utah(3yrs) and later in Ohio(4yrs),I was taught watercolor by an American teacher.Later I added colored inkts too, called Ecoline.
When coming from Argentina(Buenos Aires)- we lived there almost 6 yrs-; there I had solo exhibitions,I fell in a gap, so to say.Stopped painting.:(That was coming back to Antwerp(en),BE,a port city.
I will end my writings here.I can write you a letter.It might take a while tough.
Have a great day, Daniel, and I will remain in touch.
Warm greetings from Rita