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‘commotion in my mind and bees in my stomach’ Love that description! 🐝

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Thanks, Paul!

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I recommend the podcast Ear Hustle if you want to learn more about prison life and the failures of the education system to teach us both the history of American prisons but especially the conditions in which incarcerated folk live right now

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Thanks for the tip, Kaitlin, I'll check it out! Had you heard of Attica before, from that podcast or otherwise? I'm so curious now whether it is generally common knowledge.

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This one always did it for me -

“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”

- William S. Burroughs

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I’d never heard that quote before, but adding it to my list. Thanks for sharing!

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Your welcome. Mr. Burroughs was quite a character...another self-inflicted rough life yielding interesting writing kind of guy.

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