BITTER SWEET IRONY/MIRACLE OF MIRACLES

Curious as to why Trinity Church suddenly obtained enough funding to hire two new full time employees, I inquired therein to discover that almost the entire soup kitchen and pantry program is a government-funded operation and moreover, the money I'm being paid comes from a special Covid era federal grant.

So let me get this straight: The "people" take 2/3 of my life savings and then after I've volunteered thousands of hours of my time to feed the poor and homeless, it rewards me with a $20/hour job? Doesn't strike me as a huge concession. 

Of course, I joke here. My new job has nothing to do with my imprisonment nor forfeiture of I don't even want to tell you how much money - and everything to do with my volunteerism. It's simply coincidence that the same entity that bought itself thousands of machine guns with my hard-earned cash is now giving a tiny fraction of it back. 

On the "if you don't succeed, try, try again/miracle of miracles" front, I declared a national holiday yesterday after (drum roll) receiving my long-lost commissary money from the federal government in my snail mail box. I feared it was a second stimulus payment (I already received that payment via direct deposit) until I opened the envelope and saw how much the check was for. 1317 smackeroos I wasn't sure I'd ever see. It was exactly the amount due me from my commissary account. And it only took 6 months to finally get the prison to give me my own money! Will wonders never cease?