While I was locked up I spent a lot of time dreaming about being on a river in Central Texas, listening to music, playing my guitar or harmonica, singing, and just having a good ol’ time. I have done just that as often as possible this summer. I want to share a song I really [...]
Archive for the ‘Reflections’ Category
I have served my time and I am going home!
Posted: February 28, 2012 by Texas Magnum in Growth and Change, ReflectionsThis is the post I have been waiting for all along. By the time it is received in the regular mail and posted on here, it will just about be real. I AM GOING HOME! I AM GOING HOME! I – AM – GOING – HOME!!! I am so ready, I can’t wait. Time is [...]
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Posted: December 3, 2011 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: armed robbery, gregory david roberts, hard core, heroin addict, heroin habit, shantaram, simple life, slum, wanted man
Hello all. I recently read an awesome book that I would like to tell you about in today’s post. A guy in here recommended it, and loaned it to me. It is long, close to 1000 pages, and it is intense. It is written based on truth, about the author’s own life, and it is [...]
Is that light at the end of the tunnel?
Posted: November 9, 2011 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: bad attitudes, blog, christmas, coffee, dorm, freedom, great news, imagining the future, inmates, light at the end of the tunnel, loud mouths, remainder, rusty nails, sane man, stupid mistake, thanksgiving, writing letters
I am tired. Tired of being here, tired of the classes I am in, tired of the work I do and mostly REALLY tired of this dorm I live in. I am tired of the loud mouths and the bad attitudes. I am tired of the CO’s and tired of the other inmates. I am [...]
400 days and counting in prison
Posted: September 4, 2011 by Editor in ReflectionsTags: 60 minutes, california, crazy laws, felony murder, felony murder rule, guilty of the crime, incarceration, life without parole, lifetime, maximum sentence, robbery
I realized the other day that the last day of August marked 400 days of incarceration for Texas Magnum. 400 days out of a maximum of 1460 that could be spent as a prisoner in Texas. Magnum is hopeful he will be released well before the maximum sentence date, and at this point, it is [...]
Missing out on life
Posted: March 7, 2011 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: circumstances, freedom, grandmother, milestones, selfishness, severe punishment
After being incarcerated for the last seven months, I have learned the truth about what being locked up and the loss of freedom means to a man. Before all this happened, losing my freedom meant something completely different to me than what it does now. I thought losing my freedom meant not being able to [...]
Resolutions for the new year
Posted: January 12, 2011 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: addictive behaviors, bones, booze, choices, dreams and desires, heart and soul, hearts, honesty, old habits, principals, selfish ways
As the new year comes, so do new beginnings. For many people goals are made, and promises sworn to be kept to a spouse or to one’s self. “This year it will be different. I will lose that weight”, or “I’ll cut down on the booze” or “I’ll never cheat on my wife again.” All [...]
A dream with a message for me
Posted: December 3, 2010 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: anger, cocaine, murderer, peacefulness, smile, snakes
My last post I wrote was about being in here with a man who is accused of the murder of a friend of mine. Well, it has caused me some stress. And, last night I had a dream with my dead friend in it! And, it was all wrapped up in drug and alcohol use. [...]
What do I have to be thankful for?
Posted: November 24, 2010 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: inmates, magnum, new goals, peace, thanksgiving
I am sitting here thinking about Thanksgiving which is this coming week and how much that was always a day that I have always enjoyed being with family. I will be missing all of it this year, but the past couple of years it seems that half of the time when it was a holiday or something [...]
It’s hard to help a friend from within prison
Posted: November 23, 2010 by Texas Magnum in ReflectionsTags: best friends, friendship, true friend, truth
Today I was sitting here thinking about a friend of mine who lives in Tennessee. She is a lovely person, beautiful both inside and out, and I consider her one of my very best friends in the world. I have met her in person only once, for a few days, when I took a camping [...]