By Demond A. Jackson
The universe has a way of sending us the knowledge and understanding we need at the right time and the right place. Today one of my comrades stopped me asking me if I had read the April 30th, 2015 segment of “Our Daily Bread.” I told him I forgot to read it yesterday but I would read it. Now my comrade is one the most troubled individuals I know, I find myself constantly fighting with him with all my power that he must maintain his sobriety as well as staying away from mischief.
That being the case when he reminded me about reading the Daily Bread, I knew that would be the first thing I did when I got back to my cell. After reading the composition I knew I had to share it with you. Therefore the following is an abstract excerpt from the Daily Bread:
“In our media-saturated age, image consultants have become indispensable. Entertainers, athletes, politicians, and business leaders seem desperate to manage the way they are perceived in the eye of the world. These High-priced consultants work to shape how their clients are viewed–even if sometimes there is a stark contrast between the public image of their client and the real person they are within.”
“In reality, what people need– what all of us need–is not an external make over but an inner transformation. Our deepest flaws cannot be corrected cosmetically. They are directly related to who we are in heart and mind, and they reveal how far we have fallen from the image of God.”
– Bill Crowder
No matter what your personal religious and or spiritual belief is–we are defined by our action, which are a direct reflection of our mentality, which is the sum total of what lies inside. Beauty cannot transcend destruction, negativity or evil. Therefore our goal daily, should go be the development of good character through all that comes our way.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet a blind man can see the Devils in the room..”
-Djay 5/1/15
I'm the son of an African American queen, born and raised in Los Angeles California, where I was groomed in its infectious gang culture. For the past decade and half, the federal Bureau of Prison has been a institution of self-education, self-evaluation and the reason I now possess knowledge of self. That being so, I now strive to expose the solution to the problems that our plaguing our communities, America's youth and this country as a whole. There's a saying: "There's nothing new up under the sun." Simply put, if there's one thing in this universe existence, that has seen all thing that mankind has done or not done, it is the sun. That means the moral dissension that taking place currently is nothing new. Historian have written about times where the moral fabric of a nation was so tattered where the only solution for change was war a destruction. This country was built and establish to be the nation it is today. By the disenfranchised, those who were being oppressed by the Queen and her fellow Aristocrats. Therefore if this country is to change once again for the better. It will begin and must begin with the actions and the voice of the disenfranchised i.e, America's minorities, poor and it's third class citizen the American Ex-felon. That being said I'm committed to "WRITING MY WRONGS..." and sewing seed of knowledge and truth that will blossom into peace, prosperity and positive change
Writing Contact:
DEMOND JACKSON #05934-088
FCI Victorville Medium II
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
PO BOX 3850
ADELANTO, CA 92301