First Entry
Hello to everyone that dares to enter the world of the unknown. God bless you and may you and I become good friends. May we prosper from a friendship filled with learning and understanding. My name is Osiris and I have learned that having one good friend in this world makes you a very wealthy person. I hope that through friendship we can both become wealthy in the hopes of becoming better humans. Let me tell you a little about myself. I was born Ronald Gibson, raised in Philadelphia, Pa. I am now 37 years young and have been in hell for 15 years of my life. As a child, I was not unlike the rest. I never gave my mom trouble and did well in school. I graduated high school and attended one year of college. Leaving college was probably the worst mistake of my life. My story is a complicated one, not filled with so many of the tragedies of a ghetto life, yet, overflowing with tragic experiences. As you get to know me, you will be able to see me for what I am. I am a man. I have had failures and successes in my life. I have been blessed and cursed at the same time. I pray that through our friendship that we can both become better humans and share our life-experiences. Thank you for listening. Peace and Blessings!
I am Osiris...
Let me talk about the state of the world today. I am in prison and I feel Safe! There are some real maniacs running the streets of America. I wonder if there are more rapists, child-killers and serial killers anywhere else in the world? America has to be the Breeding ground for the most evil Bastards on the planet! We have our own baby-Saddam Husseins living right here in the good ole USA! We have Pol Pot and Idi Amin living right in the heart of this great nation. Seemingly no crime that can happen hasn't happened here. I am scared to death for my family and friends that have to walk amongst the evil that men do and be potential victims of Evil men's whims. I had to turn my Idiot Box off today. I vowed to not watch it again until it was time to watch Cartoons or something not so scary! No more CNN or local news for me!
2006 is moving quickly and the years in this place are seemingly one long day of repetition. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing? I just have to continue to maintain a semblance of sanity while surrounded by the quietly insane. So many men here are LOST that it will take an act of God to ever find them again. Yet, they are "Normal" in here. I'll pray for them. Hey, maybe I am LOST too?? Please help me find out where I am in the madness? Help me find out who I am? I need help! I need some normality to help me KNOW that, maybe I am ok?? Get back at me....
I am Osiris...
Let me talk about the state of the world today. I am in prison and I feel Safe! There are some real maniacs running the streets of America. I wonder if there are more rapists, child-killers and serial killers anywhere else in the world? America has to be the Breeding ground for the most evil Bastards on the planet! We have our own baby-Saddam Husseins living right here in the good ole USA! We have Pol Pot and Idi Amin living right in the heart of this great nation. Seemingly no crime that can happen hasn't happened here. I am scared to death for my family and friends that have to walk amongst the evil that men do and be potential victims of Evil men's whims. I had to turn my Idiot Box off today. I vowed to not watch it again until it was time to watch Cartoons or something not so scary! No more CNN or local news for me!
2006 is moving quickly and the years in this place are seemingly one long day of repetition. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing? I just have to continue to maintain a semblance of sanity while surrounded by the quietly insane. So many men here are LOST that it will take an act of God to ever find them again. Yet, they are "Normal" in here. I'll pray for them. Hey, maybe I am LOST too?? Please help me find out where I am in the madness? Help me find out who I am? I need help! I need some normality to help me KNOW that, maybe I am ok?? Get back at me....
posted by The Kozak's Daughter at 5:07 PM
10 Comments:
Hey bro, don't worry, you're not going crazy, but sadly I think a lot of us out here are. Just keep your head up always--you're in my prayers. And BE GOOD! ;-)
Osiris,
One persons solace can be anothers persons prison. My experiences in prison have offered me such great hope, and joy and compassion that I too question just what the hell is going on out here.
I pray that behind the razor wire you find your solace - there's always a reason. It takes a great person to be at peace with the tragedies that life throws our way.
I've read a book by a guy doing time in PA, maybe you've heard of him - Victor Hassine - he's doing life. The book is called "Life Without Parole".
In peace,
Carley
I agree with blue on the country...it's really big and there are a lot of people and you're bound to find a little of everything under the sun. But part of the reasons we have lovely organizations such as the NRA or even the very very charitable "god hates fags" people is precisely because we have free speech...I'm not sure how they handle things over here (I'm currently in France) but every time you talk about one of our closet skeleton organisations, or public figures who say stupid nasty things, someone always wonders why they don't get arrested for that
(or maybe it's just the US's reputation for randomly throwing people in jail...)
But yeah...our country does have a lot of good things too! I met a woman from Burkina Faso who had spent six years in New York state and said that she had an amazing experience and met some incredible, God-touched people who changed her life and that next to her own country the USA was her favorite in the world... this isn't to deny all our problems or the horrific things out there... there just really are two (or more :)) sides to the coin...
sorry for rambling so much...
It's good to hear from you, Osiris :) Welcome (or re-welcome) to the blogosphere.
Bro, the crowd clamors for your response. HOLLA asap!
Hey man, this is Edison. Just stopping by, enjoying the blog. Take it easy over there!
Osiris,
Thanks for letting me know you have this new blog and glad you are back to blogging. I'll stop back and write some more.
AndyPS
Thanks everybody! The support feels nice. It will take me some time to get back to you all but keep in touch. It means a lot.
Andy, It has been a while for both of us but I am glad that we are back on. You still have to be patient with my responses because Sis is slow and there's a distance between her and I on the snail-mail side. I'll surely get right back to you though.
Man, computers are still hard to get, huh? It seems like they are giving them away as much as I see advertizements for them. I know how it is to be trying to get things together.
Yeah man, I am at a loss when it comes to most BLOG lingo but I am learning. Sis got me though. We're going to do exactly as you said and try to promote myself as much as possible. For sure, add a link for me on some other blogs, that would be cool. I know the blog is like an instant get back to me type thing, so Sis will keep me up and running as fast as she can. Steer as many people our way as you can. Thanks.
Hey there again Andy. I just wanted to reply some to your last comments on my Live Jouranl site.
The website it almost a go. I need to know what actually is interesting to put on a site and what attracts people to them? The new site will be linked, I think to the Blogger blog, so you will be able to check that out soon too. I did most of the writing in it myself, so it may not be too well done? So, if you check it out, give me some ideas to make it better. Honest opinions are always welcome! I basically want to tell folks about my case, generate support and raise funds. I want to maybe sell some of my art and just really build up a network of good friends. The friends part is what is crucial to it all. God will do the rest.
Man, deep quote! I have to write that one in my quote book. I'm down with George Bernard Shaw too. I think that I read Man and Superman a few years back. Not that I liked it very much but it gave me something to think about. Also My Fair Lady was one of my favorite musicals and I think it was adopted from one of his plays? I have family (extended) in Ireland now too! I have been getting plenty of Irish literature lately. If you like to read, one of my favorite books by an Irish author is Angela's Ashes. A deep joint! Check it out. Thanks for the quote.
Heyyy, we are on the blogs to ramble, right? So, ramble on, I love it!
Blue Ruin? Tell me how you came to that handle? I am impressed, I usually have to tell everyone about the Osirian Myth. When I tell them that he was lord of the underworld (dead) they automatically think about Satan. They also don't know that Isis was his sister/wife that resurrected him. He was betrayed by his brother Horus. I chose the name for symbolic reasons, of course, and I felt like it was a great representation of who I am and who I want to be in many ways.
Keep your comments as educational as you want them to be. Only a fool doesn't want to learn! My mama didn't raise no fool, as we say in the hood.
About the news. Truly scary! I get the local and national news and I am still in contact with some folks in the hood. So, the news is only a part of what is really going on for the most part. The problem is that it's becoming increasingly a bigger part of what's going on. Don't get me wrong, I love this country and I surely would not want to live anywhere else. I have been to a few places. I know what it is to live in a third world country and not be able to even support yourself or your family and be subject to all kinds of ills.
I always wonder if the news in other countries is similar to ours? Unfortunately, I never watch one TV when I went to other places. You are just one girl. What you think, say and do matters more than anything. One girl here, one girl there, and the next thing you know, there are billions of girls. You know as well as I do that GIRLS RULE! :-D
osiris, you want to know where you are in the madness you see all over in the world? I think the madness is that we only see things outsideof ourselves in others. If we saw it and everything that exists the good and the bad in ourselves(remember the dream of the big man you have)we would be at peace with all that surrounds us. Your madness is shared with almost everyone else on this planet be they in a physical prison like yourselves or just in the prison of their minds. In that sense i am as mad as you are and you are not alone,none of us is. I only wished we would be more connected in peace and in beauty too not only in our madness. have to go. love and light bettina again
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