Monday, October 08, 2007

Visiting Room Beauty

Moments of beauty are precious inside the prison walls. 

One evening I heard tales of how shocking it was to come into the visiting room for the first time. Each of the two men I was listening to had stories of coming off right out of years of solitary confinement and suddenly finding themselves in the presence of women and children. Neither of then knew what to do; they literally went into shock and had to be helped to take the next steps to find their visiting families. 

Tears came to their eyes speaking of the happiness that comes with being present to children, watching them play, laugh and cry.  They sighed and spoke softly when telling of how it is to see all of the beautiful women.  "Women are all beautiful when you haven’t seen one for years."  "The energy is so different in the visiting room, so real, so full of variety."


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