April 29, 2020 Mailing

Thoughts from the free-world:

You are in our thoughts at this moment in history. – Lindsay L

I am thinking of you. I wish I could come be with you again, but for now I am thinking of you. – Kathryn Plank

Want you to know that I am thinking everyday about you all and praying for you, too. Your situation is unimaginable to most people on the outside. Hopefully, some good can come this in terms of addressing prison over-crowding and prison reform more broadly. In the meantime, I'm praying that you will recover if you have covid-19. If you don't have the virus, I'm praying that you don't get it. -Anthony DeStefanis

You are in my mind and heart. Every day. – Elise Woods

Mental/Physical Workouts for Today:

Look at yourself in the mirror, every day, and tell yourself the good things in your heart and soul. Those good things about YOU. Most importantly, BELIEVE THEM.

Draw a self-portrait using only straight lines.

Quotations to Think About Today:

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."- John Lennon

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spring and All (I) by William Carlos Williams

By the road to the contagious hospital

under the surge of the blue

mottled clouds driven from the

northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the

waste of broad, muddy fields

brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water

the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish

purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy

stuff of bushes and small trees

with dead, brown leaves under them

leafless vines-

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish

dazed spring approaches-

They enter the new world naked,

cold, uncertain of all

save that they enter. All about them

the cold, familiar wind-

Now the grass, tomorrow

the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf

One by one objects are defined-

It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of

entrance-Still, the profound change

has come upon them: rooted, they

grip down and begin to awaken