In the Personal research I have done in writing this book, I lived and saw the effects of stress and loss and fear while learning the importance of self-control, self-awareness, and connectedness. The men I have lived among behind bars in prison have taught me lessons that they don't realize they are teaching me. It's what I most needed to know. Besides them, there are those few family members and friends who have supported me and have kept my hope alive for live my own dream come true.
Yes, at this moment I am inking (with pen) these words into composition journal from a prison cell, where the words will next find their way to typing and editing then to publication. I can see my work one day being in your hands.
I'll be honest in saying that I didn't write this book as being and acclaimed spiritual guru, as only as a man who has always been searching for what the world could not teach me. My expertise does not prevail from years of contentment and having things fall my way, but actually more so from being an individual who always sought for goodness of heart in myself and in others, while having my own share of errors. My thoughts extend to you in the form of these words from a man who talked himself down from many emotional ledges. In prison, every moment is a struggle just to keep the chains of oppression unlocked.
Leo Tolstoy wrote that "Each time of life has its own kind of love." At this time in my life those who are behind me are my true riches. Margaret Mead once suggested that the deepest dream coming true for humans is to have someone who cares that we make it home safe.
