Prison ministry, I’ve discovered, provides a sure-fire cure for blindness. (But it’s perhaps not always as effective in remedying other physical or spiritual defects.)
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Today’s find: Deluge
It’s a good 400 paces, maybe 450, heading north from the Visitor’s parking lot to the Gatehouse at Menard Correctional Center. Once inside, you retrace almost every one of those steps, heading south along Front Street, in order to reach the Chapel.
No big deal on a nice day. But when nasty weather rears, the walk can be brutal.
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Today’s find: Cookie appeal
Jesus, did you ever eat a snickerdoodle? Or how about a molasses cookie? Any cookie at all?
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Today’s find: Back-door welcome
The entrance didn’t exactly exude “fellowship.”
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Today’s find: Egg-stasy
I saw it happen, right before my eyes: an unassuming hard-boiled egg became filet mignon.
Continue readingToday’s find: Gloom, dispelled
It wasn’t a “driving” rain exactly. More like “steady,” the winds mercifully silent as we made our wet way along Front Street for the four-minute walk from the prison’s entry house to the chapel deep inside the grounds yesterday.
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Today’s find: Chester
The fried chicken from Rozier’s did not disappoint.
Today’s find: Weight of glory
Tough it was, nearly a physical burden, to answer the bell on Saturday morning.
Continue readingToday’s find: Mystik Dan
I’m feeling a bit less like a loser today, thanks to Mystik Dan.
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