Thursday, October 17, 2013

Free Free Free, my update.

I received an email, this blog in particular is receiving quiet a few views lately. It is on another feed where it has 30 new followers. I guess I would like to say Thanks. I don't know if it is because of Orange Is The New Black or what is up, why this post is getting so many hits? I removed the address from the previous post as I am now free. When I sent this out to my sin to blog he was supposed to post it in my old blog instead he made a whole new blog. I was contemplating with a friend whether or not to post anymore on here since I have another blog already, am in the process of revising the book I wrote while in jail. Yes I wrote a book, a novel in jail. I did not write my life story as some people do when they are in jail. I wrote a fiction novel. Creating wonderful, and beautiful characters while I did my time. The characters helped me because some of my family is in the characters and in a way it made me feel closer to my family since phone calls and letter were rare. Oh the letters were not rare going out. I loved writing to people. I have all the letters I wrote everyone in my family except my dad and Grandma's, they are the only ones who kept them. Everyone else gave my letters back and I have a big box of my writing in my closet. I have yet to open the box and read through some of them. I don't know if I am ready to go back there yet. Those days of laying on my THANK GOD bottom bunk and wondering what I would do with my life upon release. Days of penning down thoughts. Days of seeing the beauty in a blade of grass. Days of wishing for something besides recycled air to breathe. Days of loving the sky. And the day I was given my bus ticket and ride to the bus station. It was my first time on a greyhound. And truthfully it is one of the only ways I travel now. I remember when I first rode it to freedom, looking at the small towns in amazement. Looking at people milling about their everyday lives. Looking at people who didn't even know in their vicinity there was a whole lot of pain of women who had everything taken from them for mistakes they made in life. Women who will never be looked at the same by society because of their mistakes. Yes, I have a past. But I can not bury my time there on the inside because I met some beautiful souls. It is over but like PTSD it comes back when I realize how many still have so much time. I am here, they are there. Last names fade but time shared, emotions raw, laughter survived, tears flowed. The one thing on the back of everyone's mind is home.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

The price of freedom

You never realize the price of freedom until it is taken away. You never realize a breath of fresh air is what it is, until you don't have that option. I did some awful things for people for the price of my freedom. Iam sorry, remorseful, and pissed off that most of those people will not be pursued or prosecuted.
Fuckers.
That's what i get for being an idiot + too trusting. Evil is in everyone for money for the price of money + this costed me so much. I'm blogging from the inside, having my oldest son post this. Sentencing is 60 some days away as I write + my future is up in the air.
I quickly had to learn barter, trading sugar fo coffee or a stamp. Became an expert with a spork, treasure my suave shampoo + watery cocoa butter lotion, I was able to buy with commisary money my brother sent.

I learn to use the rough floor to file my nails, I must admit I did a good job. The ends of latex gloves, The ring part goes that goes around your wrist, can be made into a ponytail holder. And just yesterday I learned how you can curl. Your hair using the standard brown napkins, but I didn't. I get to watch the sun rise every morning through a window that runs the height of the room + about 6 inches wide. I am relieved another day has passed. I remember the lines of a wise man from the Big Aplle. Well ok, I don't remember exactly but it was something like.

In being locked up, I realized they can never completly lock me up my mind was always free.

I know I totally screwed it up Blue Eyes, but now you know why all the questions about time.

Even though, I wish it was all over I am glad to be going through it at this age + time. I don't know if i would of been able to handle it at a younger age. So I turned myself in to the U.S. marshals 13days ago, 15 books later I am coping to only way I know how... as a Lakota woman

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