hello / just thought I’d let you know that I’m mounting an exhibition in the Irish library on the first floor of the central library, whic…
hello / just thought I’d let you know that I’m mounting an exhibition in the Irish library on the first floor of the central library, which is in Belfast city centre, royal avenue, you can see ‘within these walls’, three prisons, the crum, the maze and armagh regards / geraldine
This Piece About Addiction any KIND… Those voices we call demons that live inside us that want to control instead of Letting Go and…
This Piece About Addiction any KIND… Those voices we call demons that live inside us that want to control instead of Letting Go and Letting God for We have no Control of People Places Things. To Surrender and find Spiritual Freedom To have Grace Is God’s Ultimate Gift….. I believe that all People have a little and at times big monster that wants to come out the best thing we can do to free ouselves from acting out and or harming ourselves or others is to turn those thoughts over to God … I had written this piece and Sean said I could use some of his beautiful and exquisite Art…. The Picture so stood out to me … It reminded me of the place I could dwell and the place I did dwell before I recognized those inner dark voices… and found a relationship with God my higher power… / God Bless You All / Amber Elizabeth
This is my 25th feature! Wow!! Thanks a lot, hosts of LLD, for this feature – doubly meaningful for me because this drawing is well… ve…
This is my 25th feature! Wow!! Thanks a lot, hosts of LLD, for this feature – doubly meaningful for me because this drawing is well… very much ME, on too many levels… but I am breaking free… I hope ;-) /
This year I am thinking more and more of the wonderful things the men and women of the generation before me (us) have done to help secure…
This year I am thinking more and more of the wonderful things the men and women of the generation before me (us) have done to help secure my life and the future of my children. We should thank those that are still here, before they are no longer with us. I just wanted to share some history with anyone interested in reading just a very small piece of my family history, of which I am extremely PROUD! / I have had the honour to have a Mother and Father who were both involved in World War 2 in very different areas of the world. / My Grandad and Uncle were both in Changi. My Mum, Auntie, Cousin (born in Prison Camp and died at 2 yrs of age) and Nana, all were Prisoners of War in Indonesia. My Mum was just 17 yrs old when first interned and 21 when released. The strength that she displayed is an inspiring point in my life. She passed last year, GOD rest her soul! She was the last in her family to go to God! Her Love of her fellow humans and her forgiveness of those who interned her family and the many losses they suffered was amazing! / My dear father’s experience was vastly different, he was an engineer on a number of ships crossing the Atlantic in Convoy. A Merchant Seaman. He also sailed through bombings and all along the coasts of Great Britain,Canada, Greenland, Iceland, US, South America and Africa. My dear Dad also passed last year to join his beloved wife. GOD rest his Soul! / They are Hero’s in my life and every day I remember! But on this special day, I will remember them. / Lest We Forget!
Thank you so very much to the Historic Prisons and Jails and Courthouses group! I’ve had these photos saved for 3 years now, and it’s so…
Thank you so very much to the Historic Prisons and Jails and Courthouses group! I’ve had these photos saved for 3 years now, and it’s so wonderful that I now have a place to share them. I very much appreciate the features, and look forward to enjoying everyone else’s great captures. Sincerely, / Linda
I was shocked to see 2 features in Paranormal the Norm tonight! It amazes me that I’ve had these pictures for nearly 3 1/2 years, and di…
I was shocked to see 2 features in Paranormal the Norm tonight! It amazes me that I’ve had these pictures for nearly 3 1/2 years, and didn’t know how to share them. It’s so nice that others appreciate my spooky experiences!
Thanks for featuring my photo of an inmates’ cell at manci! I am pleased that you valued the photo of the deteriorating interior of one …
Thanks for featuring my photo of an inmates’ cell at manci! I am pleased that you valued the photo of the deteriorating interior of one of this amazing historic prison’s cells. Just a reminder to everyone-if you’d like to see more of the fascinating Mansfield Correctional Facility, go to the MANCI website, or watch “Shawshank Redemption” with Timothy Robbins and Morgan Freeman-it was filmed almost in entirety at the Mansfield Reformatory—it hadn’t been closed long when that was filmed. Some of the country shots are also filmed in and around Mansfield. It is one of my favorite movies. Sincerely, / Linda
For anyone who was a fan of this series, it’s a sad day indeed. The Prisoner and ...
For anyone who was a fan of this series, it’s a sad day indeed. The Prisoner and I Am Not a Number will clue you in
Thanks to the Historic Prisons, Jails, Gaols, and Courthouses group for featuring “Solitary Confinement”. You’ve been so very good to me…
Thanks to the Historic Prisons, Jails, Gaols, and Courthouses group for featuring “Solitary Confinement”. You’ve been so very good to me, and I appreciate it immensely. Thanks again, / Linda
“Cattish-2” was featured in the group The Patchwork / !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/clothing/bodycolor:black/cropped/size:large/...
“Cattish-2” was featured in the group The Patchwork / “Stuck” was featured in the group Outsiders / I am happy, honored and grateful… Thank you so much, dear hosts!!!!
Many thanks to Bev and Phil Woodman for featuring “St Louis Old Courthouse”!!!!!! I am so happy and thoroughly honored!!!!! Thank you, ...
Many thanks to Bev and Phil Woodman for featuring “St Louis Old Courthouse”!!!!!! I am so happy and thoroughly honored!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
For anyone with images relating to Prisons, Gaols, Jails, Asylums, Iron Bars or Court Houses please feel free to have a look at the group…
For anyone with images relating to Prisons, Gaols, Jails, Asylums, Iron Bars or Court Houses please feel free to have a look at the group by this name HERE The group has been operating for quite sometime however I’d like to see the group more active so new work in always encouraged. I often see work suitable for the group and thought a little promotion never hurts anyone. So come on, get clicking – images, artwork, clothing and written work are encouraged. Bev
I work in a prison with young offenders and someone sent me the link to this amazing video. / In the Philippines, 8 prisons are using mus…
I work in a prison with young offenders and someone sent me the link to this amazing video. / In the Philippines, 8 prisons are using music and dance to ‘rehabilitate’ their inmates and I think it’s incredible. I’d love to see my lads doing this in the exercise yard….lolol Have a look at this and I think you’ll agree that it has to be a better way… The Pointer Sisters – Jump
Many Thanks for the following features and placement: Sunset out West...
Many Thanks for the following features and placement: Sunset out West featured in Retired and Happy Chilli Beach featured in Australia You’re Standing in it Ruins of the Penitentiary Port Arthur featured in / Prisons Gaols Jails Asylum, Iron Bars & Court Houses Big Red featured in the Top 10 of You’re Accepted Challenge Red Red Red Banksia Integrifolia featured in Protaceae Family The Bristol Beaufort featured in History Green Rosella featured in I Love Birds Australian King Parrot featured in Parrots Only (Birds) Misty featured in Heritage Listed and Other Trusts Sites World Wide Smiles from me! / Marilyn (Blossom) :o)
Creative Cards Freedom In Words and ART...
Creative Cards Freedom In Words and ART Lifeline / / Lifeline / / Acrylic Painting / / Hand painted or drawn Buildings and architecture /
Sorry I have’nt been around for a while. Appreciate the following features and placements: Inch Worm...
Sorry I have’nt been around for a while. Appreciate the following features and placements: Inch Worm featured in the Top 10 of The Woman Photographer Challenge / Itty Bitty Teeny Tiny ie Very Small Pink Fuzzy Fungi featured in the Top 10 of Fungilicious Challenge / The Colour Pink Coral Fungi featured in the Top 10 of Fungilicious Challenge / Enter Your Best Clavaria or Ramaria Species Moss Covered Myrtle Beech Featured and in the Top 10 of The Scavenger Hunt Challenge / Lets Hunt for Trees Rivenhall Historic Church featured in History Jardine Ferry Crossing featured in Stream Crossings and Featured Member of the Group Twin Beach Lookout featured in Out of the Blue Dog Biscuit featured in Nature’s Macro Canvas Mining Family Statue featured in Goldrush and Ghost Towns Banksia – Australian Native featured in Protaceae Family View to the Torres Strait Islands featured in Far North Queensland The Penitentiary – Port Arthur featured in Prisons Gaols Jails Asylums Iron Bars & Court Houses Dust Dust and More Dust featured in Commercial Vehicles Three Blue Berries featured in the Top 10 of Alphabet Soup Challenge / Best of B Walls of Jerusalem National Park featured in Lakes and Inland Waterways A Days Walk to the Walls of Jerusalem National Park featured in / Australian Travel Photography and Writing View HERE Thank you for all your encouraging comments and support. Marilyn :o)
*_Sorry I hit the enter button on the first try….....here ya go…...... / no need to comment unless you feel absoubtly compelled to say…
Sorry I hit the enter button on the first try….....here ya go…...... / no need to comment unless you feel absoubtly compelled to say something profound ….........ha…......just want to share the good news with my friends YOU and YOU and YOu and Yes You hiding in the corner.,... / Featured in Hand painted or drawn Buildings and architecture ....one of my personal favorites…...... / Guess why! / / Featured in Prisons, Gaols, Jails, Asylums, Iron Bars & Court Houses ...a painting that has very deeep meaning to me…....Guess Why again. / / Mahalo nui loa for the honor
Many Thanks for the following features: Streaks of Nature...
Many Thanks for the following features: Streaks of Nature featured in the Top 10 of Nature’s Macro Canvas Challenge Warmth Convict Padlock – Received Two features: Alphabet Soup – The Letter P / and / Prisons Goals Jails Asylums Iron Bars & Court Houses A very big Thank You to Bev and Phil for the honour of being chosen as a Featured Member in this wonderful group! Pathway to Krohmann – Ackermann Cottage featured in Rural NSW Rock Banksia – Banksia saxicola featured in Protaceae Family Fortescue Bay featured in Out of the Blue View to Cradle Mountain featured in Lakes and Inland Waterways Blue Benches featured in Benches Chantilly Lace – Received three features: A Beautiful Blur / Feminine Intent / Blooming Trees Over the next few weeks I might not be around much to comment. I have not been too well lately – It seems that I may have contracted Arthritis from a recent virus. I can only spend a short time on the computer as it becomes very painful. I so appreciate all your encouragement and support! Marilyn x :o)
My “Prison Lock” and “Les Paul Studio” paintings have been featured in the Art Up Close gr…
My “Prison Lock” and “Les Paul Studio” paintings have been featured in the Art Up Close group. This is their first week of features so it is quite an honor. Thank you very much!
Thank you to the Hosts of Inspired by Life Rebecca Weston...
Thank you to the Hosts of Inspired by Life Rebecca Weston and Jonathan Carrick Maier for featuring my poem “My Prison”, its greatly appreciated . Thank you soo soo much HUGS xxx Jilli
It comes to me this morning that more than anything, RedBubble is about sharing and caring, self-expression through all forms of creativi…
It comes to me this morning that more than anything, RedBubble is about sharing and caring, self-expression through all forms of creativity, and networking. Since joining this circle, I’ve made new friends, learned new things, shared parts of myself, shown and received support and unconditional love. For me, this is what we’re really here on Earth to do, learn and achieve the devine state of unconditional love. Thank you to all you RedBubblers who have contributed to the process that is my lfe. Today I want to share something that I wrote to a new friend. Take it for what it is worth to you. Namaste, or as I like to say, “May Love and Light illuminate your path.” Sunshine An e-mail to a friend: I really ended up in prison because I no longer cared if I lived or died. I was broke and without income for the first time in my life. I was unwillingly addicted to Oxycontin and could not get off it by myself. I was about to lose all I’d ever worked for, my house, my land, my car. My marriage was a joke because it had turned into a nightmare of how we could get more pills. We never made love because the pills made John uninterested. We didn’t even sleep in bed. We slept in our recliners more than anything, if I slept at all, because of physical pain. I’d do stuff like meth if I couldn’t get Oxy’s because it kept the worst of the withdrawals under control. I had no motivation to do the right thing because all I could see in my future was more pain, more oxy’s – choking the life out of me, more conflict, more lies, losing everything I’d built up. I did not want to continue living like that so I agreed to do something so very unlike me. I agreed to help Jerry rob a pharmacy. In my twisted drug affected thinking, the doctors and pharmacies and drug companies were all to blame. They’d made this horribly addictive drug and then gave them out to unknowing clients like candy. Half the damn county seemed to be addicted to those drugs. Ninety percent of the people I knew back then are dead or in prison now. Oxy’s are probably more deadly than HIV virus. So, I was angry, very, very angry. I figured Jerry (he lived with John and I back then and he was addicted, too) and I would be hitting back at the very system that had gotten me and my friends addicted in the first place. I didn’t have anything to loose in my mind, everything was going to be taken away anyway because I couldn’t pay my bills and I sure couldn’t work. I hated my life and what I’d made of it those last two years. I really would not have taken the first pill had I known what it was. I had not climbed out of a rotten childhood and abusive teenage life just to become a heroin addict at age 40. I did smoke pot but that and having a drink with John of an evening was all I did back then. Those were things I didn’t miss if I didn’t have them. The Oxy’s were different, I could not stand up without them, much less work with or without them. The physical pain I had was from degenerative disk disease, arthritis, fibromyalgia and working too damn hard, doing physical jobs I really shouldn’t have been doing by myself, pulled muscles, etc. Twice I’d driven John and I across country to get us away from Avery County so we could get off and de-tox. It didn’t work. Nothing worked. I would never be free of them as John would never willingly give them up. Everyone he knew was hooked. It was everywhere. Looking back, nothing short of being locked up, either in jail or a rehab, would have worked and rehab probably would have failed. I still haven’t bought into the mental addiction. I was physically addicted. I had to be physically removed from the pills. I didn’t have some love for Oxy’s or the so-called high. I hated them, I hated being dependent on them, I didn’t get high and I still had pain when I took them. I was like a fish on a hook hanging a 1000 ft in the air, stay on the hook and eventually die or get off the hook and drop to a quick death. At that time I could not bring myself to ask for help, I could not admit I wasn’t strong enough to put the pills aside and walk away. The withdrawals kept me firmly addicted to taking the pills to avoid being violently sick. What happened to me in county jail when I was arrested is a story for another time. It was nothing short of a miracle. The transformations I underwent while I was in prison have forever altered my life – FOR THE BETTER. For me, it seems, being locked up saved my life and allowed me to really start over. In prison I discovered just how much my poor drug addicted husband really loved me. For the first time I realized that love and sex are not the same thing. In prison I learned what it is like to really lose everything and to have to depend on someone else entirely. Having control taken away over all the big things in life finally freed me to learn that control over my self and my reactions is more important than anything else in this world. No one taught me this. Being locked up and lots of time and observation of others taught me this. You see, in prison, I still had the ultimate control of choice. I could choose to break the rules or I could choose to follow them. I could choose to be angry or I could choose to give anger up. The only thing I couldn’t choose was to lose the one man who I loved the most and who had shown he loved me unconditionally. Even that loss brought on more transformation, maybe the most important transformation. That loss drove home the reality of the saying “Don’t sweat the small stuff, because it’s all small stuff.” I didn’t mean to get into a long drawn out e-mail. But I need to say to you, maybe your friend needs to be locked up for a while in a drug program or another lockup of some kind. I needed it. I had to have control jerked away and be locked up before I could get enough distance from the problem to see clearly. I had to give control of my life over to a Higher Power. I’m not spouting AA or NA dogma. I actually prayed that day to God, Spirit, Jesus, my ancestors, allies, spirit guides and any and every force of light and love I could think of, when I gave up and said I can’t do this by myself. I did not kick the physical habit by myself. I gave it away and the powers of love and light took it away. I came off without the horrible withdrawals, without help from methadone. No physical force could have done this. It was a miracle and all I did to get it was to sincerely ask for it. BUT THERE IS NO WAY I COULD HAVE DONE IT ANYWHERE BUT JAIL. That bottom line reality really sucks but there it is. It is what it is. Prison gave me the ‘gift of time’, time to be as angry as I needed to be, time to be ashamed but certainly not alone in my shame, time to see – REALLY SEE – other people, their problems, observe their reactions to their problems, time to reflect, time to heal, and time to finally made the right choices. If I’d had the money or a good friend who knew the truth and wanted to help, I may have been able to kick it in a clinic but I doubt it. I needed the hard love of prison. A clinic would have been too easy, too understanding and would have fed those parts of me that wanted to lean on someone else, have someone else cure my problems. In prison it was me or nothing. I had to do it all myself. The only link to the outside I had for years was John. I begged him to divorce me and go on with his life. He refused. He stayed and cared for my terminally ill Mother for three and a half years. He supported me with money and time and unfailing love. He didn’t always come through for me but I survived those few times he couldn’t send me a little money. Even with his need for pain-killers, with his own terrible pain from fractured vertebra, he was there for me, always there for me, even during the six month period when he couldn’t come see me. I couldn’t hold him, couldn’t make love to him, couldn’t sit and talk for hours with him, but John was more a part of my life while I was locked up than anyone has ever been. He did not desert me… ever. Death has not dimmed what he did for me. I know I was finally loved, fully loved, for every stinking part of me by the very man I married, the very man who introduced me to a pill that he did not even know was terribly addictive. It took prison and separation to know that. It took prison and time, lots and lots of time. For a woman with a brilliant brain I was a very slow learner. Most of my life I’d wallowed in pain, emotional pain, and anger over all the abuse I’d suffered as a child. It took being locked up and loosing the only true love I’d ever known to show me how to let go of all that pain and anger. I hope and pray that your friend is more successful than I was at healing his pain. Drugs are not the answer. Sometimes freedom is not the answer. Each of us is different and I am the exception when it comes to people healing and changing their lives because of prison. Most inmates just get worse but then most inmates don’t have my education, background or experience unconditional love. I was blessed, I am blessed. I hope your friend is blessed too.
I’d like to thank the hosts of 60’s Glory for featuring my work “Freedom” and the hosts of “O…
I’d like to thank the hosts of 60’s Glory for featuring my work “Freedom” and the hosts of Ontario for featuring my work “After the Ice Storm”. Thanks so very much. A great honour! Mike. Freedom / After the Ice Storm /
Ha! You fell for it! Now that I have your undivided attention, consider this… As a writer you have the power, for mere seconds at t…
Ha! You fell for it! Now that I have your undivided attention, consider this… As a writer you have the power, for mere seconds at times, to hold your readers captive. Drawn like moth to the light, and unwary of the fate you have chosen for their hungry minds. You are the warden of the prison you’ve created. You can torture them with erotic lines of pleasure. You can make your words sing and watch their soul quiver. You can poke at their emotions and squeeze the tears from their bleeding eyes. You can run a light shiver through their spines and infest their mind with scary thoughts. You can do wonders! You can plunge them in your world and suffocate them with your imagery. You can scream out the sorrows of love and whisper the joy of togetherness. You can do miracles! I’m sorry if I overwhelm you, it’s just that I am looking at limitless possibilities. And so my question is simple, o warden, what, if anything, will it be?
Talk about a captive audience!...
Talk about a captive audience! A Christian prison? “[The prisoners] don’t have to go to church, or Bible study, but they have to participate in the curriculum, which is Christ-centered,” Robinson said. He possesses legal opinions that say that as a religious organization, the prison will be able to hire only people of like faith, he said.
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