[I am back working through my prison journal. It is out of order. The date in the title is the date it was written.Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. I hope this is not confusing. What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. This may have been for a presentation in one of the community college classes I sgned up for. sch 4/21/2025]
Stress kills. We need an outlet for our stress, and I am here to advocate for using creativity - especially writing - as an outlet for our stress.
Writing must be learned, but it can be learned through practice. Writing takes mindfulness, just like meditation. Choosing the correct word to convey the thought, the emotion, the action you wanted conveyed takes the same concentration as meditation. It is a form of meditation.
Learning good writing also means reading good writers. They will also teach you the form you might want to use - diary, essay, fiction, poetry. I suggest always keeping a diary - you can use it to discuss your life as you live it. You may want to extend it into a memoir, or as material for fiction.
I'd also want to show you how one person turned his prison life into poetry. A felon turned lawyer and poet, Reginald Dwayne Betts.
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And that is my part of a group presentation made last Wednesday. I read the first "Essay on Re-entry" to the class.
It's not a very good speech. I was limited to two minutes and I cannot say I took all seriously the college Success and Wellness course.
The thought came back to me recently how I am a dead man just waiting to stop breathing. Odd thing is, I do not feel depressed.
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