Between the bars
22nd August 2017

This is just a brief note to help explain my previous post. You see, sometimes my belly gets the best of me - and when I see SPCA commercial on T.V. soliciting donations to help feed and care for abused and abandoned animals, I think to myself: what about me? And then I wonder : how many people who know me actually donate to SPCA "63¢ a day =19$ a month".
I've posted the prison menu here before so I won't bother making a case about malnutrition, except to point out that my disinterested belly-girth is NOT evidence of ... I don't know what it's evidence of really! To me, it's beginning to appear like those starving kids in Africa - who I also see on commercials soliciting donations for HELP.
So that's what I'm thinking whenever I post solicitations for donations into a Care Package account. I am permitted to receive one 30lbs Care Package of vittles every three months - generally amounting to between 150$ or 200$. Thats roughly 2$ a day/60$ a month. If I had a Sarah McLaughlin soundtrack to play some sad song here - I couldn't afford to pay her the royalties, so I wouldn't dare.
Over three years I've been blessed by a friend or two from time to time who have ordered Care PCkages of vittles for me, "A way to a man's heart", it said. But after 20 years now, packages are far and few less frequent - hence, the PREPAID CUSTOMER ACCOUNT solicitations reminding readers of my blog that I'm Hungry. A closed mouth doesn't get fed, right?

And now that a light of "early release" (LOL) appears as a beacon of home when I turn 60 years old in 2023, I'm thinking that it's due time that I concern myself with maintaining my own health and well-being for a cihange. I've spent a lifetime concerned with battling status quo on some quixotic crusade or another... and the last few years promoting others self-improvement opportunities here have been a wee stressful, believe you me! I didn't have this gray beard when I started this most recen effort - counter effort game anyway! It way justbe a coincidence but I'm just saying: A pioneer can lead the way, but then getting other people out of their comfort zone is a whole other matter!
I've done my best with the baggage I've carried along, and now I'm a College Student studying Human Services - of all things!!! It appears there is a pattern developing in this puzzle of a life I've been piecing together after all.

Be blessed in your blessings and care the well .
For the Love of Truth. W