News from DR

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN......

They say that our struggle are what make us, Huuummm, well I don't know about that, but I do know that the struggles we both go through and make it out of are the things that we, and others remember the most.

I look at so many men and women who live behind those walls and who struggle in silence, and I am amazed. I admire them so much. Why ? Because pain is so hard to mask... and sometimes so hard to recover from, yet these men and women do it every single day. Some might say that I do the same, but I don't, I cry and whine... I scream. But, silence and defiance isn't what I do.

So many things can be said about this life, but how many can say that they know what it is like to be on death row or to have a life sentence ? How many can say that they would survive ? I'm not glorifying crime or the people who chose to do it, I'm just saying...

We discover ourselves through trials... through hardships. I see that too every single day. For me, it's proof that no one is incapable of overcoming, no one is incapable of redemption. But you won't know it if you never look, you won't ever be proud if you never pay attention. Again, I am just saying...

Gifts come all the time, we just have to be ready and willing to receive them. Be it a letter, a hug, a kiss, or a struggle overcame... they all should mean just as much.

It hurts me when I woke up in prison... it hurts me so much because I felt that I let sooo many people down. I thought about by mom and dad and my kids... I just didn't know what to do. But after I stopped crying (even though I still do at times), I started working. And even though it was nothing that I could really see myself, because I was in the heat of battle, my family saw it... they saw the change and work, and just knowing that I was able to make them happy made this fight seem not so tough, and certainly well worth it. If I can be that way for me, I know there's soooo many more who have been through the same. You know, I'm just saying....

Life is a gift... change is a gift, and everybody deserves a chance at doing that. Admiration is not easily given, nor is it a common thought behind these walls, but I see so many men and women who bring that word to my mind all the time. Even though I hardly say it, I watch with adoration and pride as they go about the business of being human, making mistakes, dealing with the consequences of said mistakes, and changing totally... not for this system, but for themselves.

What I am saying is the roads of life can be soooo ugly, but once those roads have been paved and cleaned, they can be soooo beautiful... ,but again, the beauty is only the end result. We'll remember the work it took to make that road what it is today, and that is beauty in itself.

FIGHT FOR LIFE... FIGHT THE D/P !!!

Luv & Respect,

Tyree

August 25, 11