Forth of July

Today is the first Independence day I have celebrated in four years. I recorded in a journal a year ago while I was incarcerated that the temperature in Ohio had a heat index of 107 degrees, the hottest I had ever experienced in prsion. I remember sitting on my rack sweating profusley and ignorance in the dorm running rampant. I thought that in a year I will be home and all this will no longer matter.  Here I am a year later and I love freedon. My wife and I made love, stayed home, tended our plants, grilled chicken and just spent the day being free. I think often of those I left behind, some soon to be released and other will never be free again.
Thank you God for freedom and deliverance from the evil system, teach me to walk everyday in gratitude. I will never forget how bad things were and how far You have brought me.