This is the only OT tasked again with bringing you the message for the week. First off plenty of blessings and love sent to each and every one of you. The advice topic was really popular, and I had a feeling it would be. All you readers, young or a little bit older, said some great things about who you take advice from. You even detailed situations, and many of you shared an example of a time you took some advice. I was really inspired by all you guys and gals, writing, that I want to go ahead and touch
Continue ReadingMonth: December 2024
A Surprise Trip
-L, Sacramento When I was like ten, my whole family took a surprise trip to my family’s home town in Mississippi. My dad never told me or my little brother about the trip, we just woke up early one morning and we went to my auntie’s house. Then, we got in a big van with the rest of my family and we started a long drive to my uncle’s house to pick up family, and even then my dad still didn’t tell us where we were going until we got to my uncle’s house. After the long three hour and
Continue ReadingMy Joy Is on Mondays
-Spaz, San Francisco The joy in my life is that you guys come every Monday and we write about different topics so that we can express ourselves. It helps me express myself and I can show my ideas to other counties and places. Maybe somebody reading will like my writing and sponsor me. I like to read the magazine when it comes. I like to see who has Pieces of the Week. I like to see when my pieces are in the magazine, they are usually in the front. I just try my best every week so I can get
Continue ReadingBelieve in Yourself
-John Sherwood, Correctional Facility in Pound, VA Young princes and young queens, you are so much more than any struggle you’ve gone through. You are so much more than the difficult circumstance that you are dealing with. You got to believe in yourself. Even when people that are supposed to love and provide for you are unable to help you in the way you may need or desire them to, it doesn’t lessen your worth. There are many people in society that are trying to help you. Most importantly, you have to help yourself! You got to admit that what
Continue ReadingHello My Young Friends
-Phil D, Avenal State Prison in Avenal, CA Just a reminder to you all that things may not look too good right now while looking out the cell window, but I promise you that things will start to change when you look within yourself. My life was a mess for over forty years, till I got arrested. Everything I ever had was stripped away from me, and I was at rock bottom. So I started to take advantage of all the help I could get, especially the mental health programs. They help me to look back and see why I
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