Much peace to you all and may the birds’ songs and butterflies’ dancing be in your hearts and souls. I hope your lives are full of blessings. A bit of a trying time for me right now with all this movement from yard to yard, and now possibly being moved backwards to a higher level prison.
For the moment, I am still at Pleasant Valley State Prison. But the B-Yard captain, and other B-Yard officials who have only met me one time on the day of the Classification Hearing, have put me up for transfer to a higher level prison where heavy violence is the norm, and lockdowns can last a year or more. There are no birds or cats to see or feed at those places. I have done my time at higher level prisons.
I have not done anything wrong at Level 3 prisons like PVSP. And I have not had any points in over ten years. Thirteen years of good programming at Level 3 prisons. But the captain said, “You should have known better than to come to my B-Yard.” The transfer is without merit and unjustified considering my history.
But nevertheless, whatever happens, I won’t let spiteful people – people who don’t even know me – get me down or keep me down. Like the earth turning, I will keep turning, and like the sun and the moon, I’ll keep rising, keep growing, shining and believing in peace, love and realness. I’ll keep letting the hate and madness go.
I’ll keep sending out love and peace around the planet to people open to it, and especially to some prison officials and people closed to peace and love illuminating from behind bars. No, I won’t hate anybody, even those who cannot really see or feel me just because I am in prison.
Hate destroys everyone and everyone has one foot in light and one foot in darkness, even the ones who do not know it and have their heads lofty and high among false clouds – clouds, clouds that fade away. Whereas real clouds of love transform. I’ll hope for the best, and act for the best, and expect nothing.
I heard from Judith that a few people saw the short film, “Three Poems by Spoon Jackson,” in New York and enjoyed it. That is splendid, even though I have not had the chance to see the film. But I know my brother Michel did a grand realness job. Book and DVDs will be coming out in the future.
Here is the connection for Anna’s website to hear music we wrote. There are two sites:
htt://medieteknik.6th.se/anoa01
www.mermusik.se
Stay Real Section
Keep your heads up and keep striving and letting realness flow like a waterfall. I know dreams may seem out of reach a lot of times, like the stars, but we touch and hold the stars in our eyes, hearts and souls.
Bird and Cat Stuff
Feeding a few birds when I can; head warder on B-Yard doesn’t like bird feeders. But that’s okay. I’ll look for my little friends anyway.
From a distance, across from B-Yard to A-yard, I saw the old A-Yard pride of cats scurrying around.
Closing Thoughts
I know for the second time this is a shorter newsletter than usual. I assure you, despite the madness some B-Yard warders are trying to heap upon me and my spirit, I will continue to look them in the eyes and hope one day they will truly look into mine.
My heart may be low for the moment, but my head, soul, and thoughts are still up. Love and realness are flowing. Remember to live and love and find what you do best in life and do it – cultivate it like an evergreen garden!
May peace and love fill your hearts!
Stay Real.
From Peace G and Spoon
