#iamapatriot

Little Bear and I at the Women's March in Lansing. #iamapatriot #theresistance #weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident

#rememberthefallen #forevergrateful🙏 #american #iamapatriot (at Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Bs8gJBkvP/?igshid=181zjh0css72w

Little Steven say Happy Birthday America with the reggae beat of “I am a Patriot!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzguf7WBIM0 #stevievanzandt #littlestevenandthedisciplesofsoul @littlesteven_ug @stevievanzandt #iamapatriot (Tokyo, Japan)

I want to be with my family the people who understand me Ive got nowhere else to go and the rivers shall open for the righteous #jacksonbrowne #worldinmotion #iamapatriot _____________ today my dad is crowned 68. my son squeals towards him singing up up up as my dad lifts him & gifts explode from boxes. just five years ago I stumbled thru ventura county waiting waiting waiting on dealers waiting on needle exchanges waiting on junkie customers & lining it all up for my arrest on multiple felony drug charges forbselling heroin like lollipops in May. May arrived & I phoned my folks from holding to inform them I wouldnt be reachable for a minute. They didnt answer, I hung up, figured that answered that & waited to be housed while treading water in a pool of sweat & diving in chills. some hours later the voice in the sky crashed over head like a dream ROLL IT UP H. I signed for my property & exited to find my bewildered & concerned dad. they didnt know I started swimming with sharks again. a dozen or so arrests & they never bailed me out - I never asked - but this time they pulled $20,000 out of their house & my dad drove the six & a half hours south to bail me out. he gave me his fleece in the early morning & told me he planned to stay at a hotel to rest, he welcomed me there & to return with him up to the bay area. with about a day into a detox from a massive habit I told him to drive me home. he did. he hugged me. I disappeared into my house. he drove the six & a half hours home by himself without sleeping. I needed to get well way more urgently than I needed to comfort my confused & fearful father. when I think about this situation with my dad it sucks. I find peace in knowing I make a monthly financial amends to him & daily living amends to him - I do this by staying clean & being available for him the way he has been for me. I do this by creating moments that (by contrast) make it all worth it, like this one here xox 1/2 Brixton, today, with my dad on his birthday 2/2 June 2013 with my dad & about 36 hours clean on a sail boat in San Diego for Father's Day. This was after my first felony possession for sales charge & days before my second for the same.

More from West Point! #iamapatriot #respectourtroops #westpoint #usma (at West Point - The U.S. Military Academy)

Just let me and other Americans grieve the tragedy that has hit the country that I love in peace.