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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 20 - Winter-Spring 2002

< Dedication to Yolanda R.
 
< Work and illness
 
< Legal Corner: CDC Proposed Changes to Visiting Regulations
 
< Editorial: The Contradictions of Work
 
< To Women Prisoners
 
< Pa'lante: Introducimos . . .
 
< Landscaping
 
< No More Time
 
< The Labor of Doing Time
 
< CCWP has a staff member, Phyllis Johnson
 
< Theresa Cruz rejected for parole
 
< Are you a survivor?
 
< Debi Zuver, battered woman, gets maximum penalty
 
< It's Your Health: A Word To My Co-infected Sisters
 
< CCWP takes stock of last year
 
< The San Diego chapter of California Coalition for Women Prisoners
 
      

Landscaping

by Anna Bell, CCWF

My job in C yard crew is not a job at all. Its a world I get completely lost in. Especially when things get to be too much I can work outside and melt into my little world of flowers, plants and insects. They are alive, and they are alive with me. I enjoy the challenge of taking something plain and turning it into something beautiful.

I talk to my plants and I believe they feel me. They look more beautiful when I show them I care. And when it rains outside and people are unhappy about that, I feel just the opposite because I know that my little friends are getting the nourishment they need.

I also enjoy working with my hands -- the feel of the earth between my fingers, the smell of fresh cut grass, the roses in bloom. I dont look forward to getting $20.00 a month, I only look forward to getting lost in my little world of beauty and nature.

Last updated August 18, 2003 08:40 AM



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