For this Felonist Friday, I’m opening the archive. At the end of the Rikers Diaries — and throughout the Bedford Diaries — I kept talking about my Rule of Prayer, and this week I finally found the original documents: the handwritten version I wrote at Rikers and the typed version I created at Bedford. These pages were my ballast, my grounding, my way of staying "In Spirit" when everything around me was chaos. In this bonus episode, I read both versions aloud and share the two prayers that carried me through some of the darkest days of my life: The Bedford Prayer and The Psalm Prayer. If you want to follow along, you can download the handwritten and typed PDFs here:

⁠https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ed5shTAaPQ_ZE3m8nGYaPf8ZMw9QnA78?usp=sharing