A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.zippittydodah.com/2022/08/a-candle-in-window-and-god-is-welcoming.html

I know... The commentary here, more and more often trends toward calling attention to how crazy people are becoming. It is actually moving at a pretty startling clip. It's not everybody, but there is that group of people. It is not a small group because it is a combination of various, widespread pathologies. There is this propensity for their heads to explode. Their occasional thoughts go off like firecrackers in an empty lot, on a wet night, in the wrong part of town. There is no actual wrong part of town because misfortune can happen anywhere. It's more like being the wrong kind of person.

I was in and out of carceral situations over the course of about 6 years. It worked out about even, roughly. Where I was it was 90% black. I am not. You find out rather quickly whether God is real or not. The most surprising things happened to and around me while I was locked up. I met people for whom casual and extreme violence was the way of it for them. I met royalty, and I met The Dregs. I was just out of my teens... just.

The odds were VERY MUCH against my having an easy course of it, BUT... I did, inasmuch as one could say something like that. I was in The DC Jail when, and while... Martin Luther King was killed. They were busing them in by the hundreds from Balmer (what the residents call Baltimore) and other places. I've heard it said now and again that a particular situation was a powder keg. I've been in a few of them, and this was one of those. I was transferred out mere days before they tore that prison apart.