As bad as it is here, it has gotten better since the Sargent Floyd riot, hostage, murder thing. I'm on my 7th of a 20 year bit, and I just turned 60! 

I've submitted over 30 studio gallery-quality paintings in the JTVCC Prison Art Program, and not one has sold. And I can't get them back. But "...it's therapy and I should be grateful..." Sigh. 

The truth is that I have more inner peace now than I've had since I was 10-years-old. Art, music, ...amd the Word; it's the communication of the heart. Thank you for letting me share this with you. Freedom is a state of mind, mostly; a state of being...not so much. 

-- A Jimmyism