This week I sit here, away from my family at the holidays once again, and I find myself thinking. I am where the universe wants me to be, or else I wouldn’t be here. Since I don’t want to be here, I realize I need to look for the lesson in the situation. Christmas is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘heroin’
So this is Christmas…
Posted: December 26, 2011 by Texas Magnum in Growth and Change, UncategorizedTags: heroin, rehab, stupid shit, universe
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Getting clean the hard way
Posted: April 15, 2011 by Texas Magnum in About PrisonsTags: addiction, bad experience, bad news, cold turky, county jail, detoxing, drunks, fools, heroin, honesty, withdrawal
Maybe a few of you reading this blog stumbled on here when you were looking for information about heroin or addiction. Maybe you or one of your family members is struggling with some of the very same things that got me here in prison and you are looking for help. In one of my first posts [...]
“I can” – the strength of those words
Posted: March 16, 2011 by Texas Magnum in Growth and ChangeTags: attitude, buddies, conversations, drugs, good friend, handstand, heart, heroin, real men, scrabble, selfish, succeed
Within the last two days, two of my buddies here in the unit got moved. I was really sad to see them go. One in particular had become a really good friend. He was a good dude and I had spent a lot of my days talking and sharing stories and thoughts with him. He [...]
A poem about heroin addiction: Venomous
Posted: October 31, 2010 by Texas Magnum in PoetryTags: blessing from god, date with death, heroin, needle, poison, veins, venom
As I anxiously wait for the magistrate’s date I sit and ponder my majestic mistakes. My crimes are gathered ’round me in a pool of shame, what a fool I was to think that alone I could change. Over and over poison coursed through my veins like venom from a lovely, deadly and devious snake. [...]