“But we do continue to wash our hands./Again & again, we wash our hands…”

These (Essays) belie the caricatures of prisoners and prison life…encountered in (the media.)

“We learned through the pandemic…how destructive social isolation is..Yet (we) keep thousands… in solitary confinement…”

“Gardening has been my meditation, my solace, my delight…”

“The sooner I accept… EVERYTHING as light…the sooner I stop struggling.”

Maybe the issue isn’t to stop sowing bad seed…but to sow more good seeds