3 Years Ago Today I Became a Free Man
The FBI arrested me on October 1st, 2013.
I was charged with one count of mail fraud and pleaded guilty.
All told, I spent 2047 days under some form of imprisonment.
This is the equivalent of:
- 176,860,800 seconds
- 2,947,680 minutes
- 49,128 hours
- 292 weeks and 3 days
- 5 years, 7 months, 9 days
- 67 months, 9 days
On this day, May 9th, 2019, I became a free man. I was done with pre-trial supervision, prison, the halfway house, and supervised release.
I never understood the power, beauty, and complexity of freedom until I lost it.
You can’t truly understand something until you’ve experienced its opposite.
Freedom is complex. It’s deep. It goes beyond being confined to a perimeter. True freedom is found within, true freedom is internal, and the choices I make either contract or expand that freedom.
Every day there are hundreds of choices to be made. Some of them big, some of them small. Regardless of their size, bringing awareness to every choice is the key to an extraordinary life, to painting whatever I want to paint.
