Dearest Sally

*A note from the Proxy: We at Prison Proxy would like to apologize for our lack of posts last week. For some reason, the batch of articles set to publish did not upload properly. Our Webmaster will investigate this further. In the meantime, here is a response from Texas Inmate to a comment posted from one of our readers. Thanks for reading!

Thank you for your continued readership. It means the world to me.

Per your question about my Kairos Society initiative, and whether getting people involved will be akin to getting blood from a stone, I honestly don’t know. Initially, it does appear to be following the same emotionally exhaustive course that our attempted actualizing of ideas takes: immediate positive responses from credible, vested interests; then my ebullient counter response; then nothing; fade to black.

I can’t blame anyone, as this course must be the result of a lack of the necessary merit in my ideas. Granted, they’re good, but not outstanding to the point where parties will incur the necessary political risk inherent in dealing with (i.e. endorsing) a prisoner. Hence, interest can be—and generally is—positive, but that in and of itself, is never enough.

If anything disappoints me, Sally, it’s the common theme of a lack of closure. Beginning with my quasi-girlfriend at the time of my incarceration, many friends, family members and almost-business partners thereafter, have, when deciding to discontinue dealing with me, failed to inform me of their decision, nor any of the reasons for it.

I’m thus left to my own guesswork and swelling cynicism (the latter of which I have recently arrested, I might add).

Anyway, I haven’t heard anything of late as regards to my idea for starting a Kairos Society chapter in prison for college student prisoners. I will keep you posted though.

Another idea you may be interested in, Sally, is the idea to crowdsource the proxy position in my blog (i.e. the person whom I write my posts to, for them to transcribe and upload to the blog itself). This new clan of proxies could even post their own comments on the blog when they upload my entries, and perhaps a new genre of blogging would crop up in the running interactions between myself and you guys.

It’s just a notion for now, but it could work out.

Again, thanks for reading, Sally.

Oh yeah, and the tattoo needles here don’t work as well as their free world equivalents, but some of these guys can still really finesse them!