I mentioned much earlier that when I was raising my children I tried to see the learning opportunity every situation presented. When you teach your children about music, about literature, about the world, about life, the learning transcends the content of the lesson. You are teaching them to learn. In my estimation it is unfortunate, though, that some lessons can only be learned as adults when they are beyond our daily influence.
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The Shackles of Freedom – Chapter 6.4
I am more thankful than words can offer for the year I had with my son in the aftermath of his incarceration. Having been deprived of family, he was trying so hard to reconnect with each of us and in that sense he was in a very real way our benefactor, or at least he was mine.
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The Shackles of Freedom – Chapter 6.3
I’ve intentionally avoided any detailed discussion of a life in prison. My son told me stories; stories I wish I didn’t know; things better left unsaid; things that demonstrate our justice system is anything but just. But a reality of prison life that bears on this part of his story is the violent nature the system breeds. Continue reading
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