HAPPY 70TH Bishop Serratelli and Father Richard Bay distribute Holy Communion and Deacon Kevin McKeever distributes the Precious Blood during the 70th anniversary Mass for St. Simon Parish in Green Pond July 10.
GREEN POND On Sunday, Bishop Serratelli celebrated the 70th anniversary of St. Simon the Apostle Parish — a small faith community, tucked in the woods of rural Rockaway Borough, that has grown from humble beginnings to a dynamic congregation today demonstrated by its commitment to the faith and service to others.
Bishop Serratelli was the main celebrant and homilist for the 11:30 a.m. Mass July 10, which marked the septuagennial anniversary of St. Simon's — a parish that has grown to 120 families in recent years and has attracted faithful from neighboring towns. Father Richard Bay, St. Simon's pastor, concelebrated the Mass, which was followed by brunch, cooked by the parish's Boy Scout Troop.
"The 70th anniversary of St. Simon's is a point for us to celebrate as a faith community, which works together and prays together," said Father Bay, who became pastor of this faith-filled parish in the Green Pond section of Rockaway Borough in 2012.
This year, St. Simon's tied in its anniversary with the Jubilee Year of Mercy, which the universal Church will continue to celebrate until it concludes in November. The parish has completed a 15-week faith-formation series about God's Mercy in the Scriptures and recently started a nine-week course, "Doors of Mercy: Exploring God's Covenant with You," which meets on Tuesday evenings. In addition, the parish's religious education students have been performing "70 Acts of Kindness," Father Bay said.
A look at a recent bulletin shows the array of spiritual and social outreach activities at St. Simon's, including registration for the religious education program and Vacation Bible School and a Mass of Anointing, both to be held in August. The parish held a collection for the Little Sisters of the Poor, who operate St. Joseph's Home for the Elderly in Totowa, and also holds collections for the Rockaway Food Closet and the food pantry at Hope House, Dover, an agency of diocesan Catholic Charities, Father Bay said.
The small white St. Simon Church sits on a long twisting stretch of Green Pond Road in Green Pond, which began as home to the Lenape Native American tribe, prior to Dutch settlement in the late 17th century. From the American Revolution and after, the area buzzed with mining activity that peaked in the 19th century and has since been discontinued. Many unheated holiday cottages built in the early 20th century were converted to year-round houses with central heating, according to the history of St. Simon's, which serves residents, both summer and year-round dwellers.
In retirement, Bishop Emeritus Rodimer lives in Green Pond and has attended many liturgical and social events at St. Simon's. He grew up in St. Cecilia Parish, Rockaway Borough, and remembers, when his family would rent bungalows for vacations in Green Pond, he recently told The Beacon.
St. Simon's legacy of faith and love starts in the winter of 1942-43. Green Pond residents would drive to Sacred Heart Parish, Rockaway Borough, for Mass, but because of gas rationing during World War II, Father Andrew Romanak, Sacred Heart's pastor, was given permission to celebrate Mass in the Green Pond Hotel. In the summer, Masses were celebrated in the Community House in this resort area. On July 8, 1946, the parish was incorporated and received the name St. Simon, the parish history states.
That year, Father John McKenna was named administrator and built the church — the same structure that the parish uses today. Later, then-Father Carl Wolsin, who was appointed pastor in 1961, redecorated and remodeled the church after Vatican II. In 1966, St. Simon's became a mission of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, Oak Ridge, and then was designated as a parish in 1971. Thereafter, St. Simon's built a new rectory and parish social hall, according to the parish history.
In recent decades, St. Simon Church has received many physical improvements. In the mid-1980s, Father Elso Introni, pastor, had the church interior repainted. In the 1990s, Father Joseph Anginoli, pastor, had the hall under the rectory converted into a gathering space, the front doors of the church replaced and a handicapped ramp installed, St. Simon's history states.
In the 2000s, the church hall was converted into religious-education classrooms — a project started by Father Anginoli and completed by the next pastor, Father Marc Mancini. Also, Father Mancini oversaw development of a Marian shrine, renovation of the front of the church and the rebuilding of classrooms that Hurricane Sandy destroyed. Under Father Bay's pastorate, St. Simon's had the church steps and the ramp renovated and the Marian shrine enlarged, among other improvements, according to St. Simon's history.
The 70th anniversary of St. Simon's brings back lots of memories for Richard Kimble, a long-time trustee, who has been associated with the parish for 73 years — before its founding. Originally, a Sacred Heart parishioner, Kimble would trek to Green Pond with Father Romanak to assist at Mass. He also remembers, when Father McKenna lived in a bungalow on the hill behind the church.


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Q: Why is the %A specifier in F#'s printf non-existent in OCaml's printf? In F#'s printf there is the format specifier %A which enables to pass in any F# type, and it would be evaluated and printed.
As an example:
type Result<'a> =
    | Failure
    | Success of 'a

printf "%A" (Success "hello") // prints out 'Success "hello"'

Where, clearly, Result<'a> isn't a built-in type.
I can declare a similar type in OCaml, but there is no equivalent specifier for Printf.printf - instead, I would have to implement my own string_of_result function, and use the %s specifier in the format string. Moreover, since this is a polymorphic type, I would have to create a not-straightforward function that can handle any type instance of 'a.
My question is - why does OCaml lack this handy specifier? Is it because there is no incentive to implement it? Is it because there's some lacking under-the-hood mojo, which is just there in F#?

A: I'd say "lacking under-the-hood mojo" is probably the reason.
In F#, %A specifier defers printing to a reflection-based printer - it uses runtime type information to traverse and print the value. The reflection API used in that process is very much a .NET-specific thing. Also while handy, it's also a comparatively expensive mechanism - it shouldn't be used as a blanket specifier if you can use a more concrete one.
From what I know, OCaml doesn't have corresponding reflection capabilities that could be used here. Perhaps there's another mechanism that would let you implement a generic print - but I'm not familiar enough with OCaml internals to tell.

A: The usual way to do this in OCaml is to use the %a specifier, and write (or derive) a printer for result to pass to it.
That might look like this:
type 'a result =
  | Success of 'a
  | Failure
[@@deriving show]

Format.printf "%a" (pp_result Format.pp_print_string) (Success "hello")

where pp_result has been generated by the deriving clause. Note that pp_result takes a formatting function as an argument which it uses to print any 'as.
OCaml erases types (almost) completely during compilation, so reflection cannot be used to implement an automagical printing function as in F#. It's not clear that reflection would work well in a language with abstract types, anyway.

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The message is clear. The American people were hooked when Vice-President Dick Cheney took over as the most powerful VP in American history. This cynical and humorous bio-pic never loses sight of this truth. And the truth is told in the most creative ways by incredible actors.
Christian Bale has Cheney's stare and smirk down! Add the heavy gold watch on that thick wrist that can flick and cast, and we have our metaphor for power. Beware of the quiet man. He watches, waits, and then strikes. Give that man (no matter that he was kicked out of Yale for drinking and fighting) an ambitious wife, Lynne Cheney ( Amy Adams) and we have the MacBeths. One of my favorite scenes being their Shakespearean bed plotting. Adams, too, is brilliant. As a take-charge-goal-setter, Adams lights up the screen, even as her old family demons keep her fighting for control.
A cast never looked more like the people they are portraying. Steve Carell as the crude talking Donald Rumsfeld, Sam Rockwell as the clueless George W. Bush, and Tyler Perry as Colin Power, and LisaGay Hamilton as Condoleeza Rice will impress. But more impressive than the acting and the physical appointments is writer Adam McKay. Half National Lampoon satire and half Michael Moore diatribe, this film is heaven for liberals about the hell of our political scene.
McKay uses a catchy format of narration. Midway through the film, we intuit that the young man speaking is Cheney's heart donor. Bogus credits roll after a half hour, and we wish this was the end of our story. In Michael Moore fashion, this film asks Americans if they were sleeping or just working such long hours that we chose not to think about our government. Yet, Cheney is portrayed as a ghost~a powerful one.
A dark comedy, "Vice" shows Cheney working as an intern for Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld tells Cheney that two DUIs came up on his clearance papers: " I took care of it. You owe me." As Rumsfeld's lackey , Cheney becomes a servant to power as Rumsfeld rises to serve in the Nixon White House, becomes Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford ( 1975-77) and under George W. Bush ( 2001-06).
In one sequence, Cheney tells his daughter that if you have power, people will try to take it away from you. Much is made in the film about Cheney's championing of Unitary Executive Theory. In its most extreme form, Congress and the Federal Courts can not touch the President. Others argue that Commander-in-Chief refers to military and National Security matters only. McKay shows the Cheneys as power bandits.
Through the use of conservative think tanks, the repeal of balanced reporting laws, and pundits like Rush Limbaugh, McKay ferrets us through the history of the rise of the Right. When a snippet of Ronald Reagan's speech " Let's make America great, again" we are meant to wince. Like in McKay's film "The Big Short" ( reviewed here Dec. 20, 2015) he ferrets out the money trail to Halliburton and Cheney's CEO connections and the resulting 500% increase in the corporation's stock.
"Vice"'s visuals are stunningly clever. I loved the stack of unwieldy porcelain cups and saucers ready to topple. The tasseled loafers, the way Cheney buttons his jacket, his saunter with briefcase under his arm, all mesh with power and the horrible history of 9/11, the Iraq War, the take down of Saddam Hussein, and the rise of his replacement, ISIS. In one memorable scene, we see Alfred Molina as a waiter serving up entrees of torture to Dick and his guests. The Guantanamo archive back-up is deactivated and Cheney says " clean to work."
The ending song from "West Side Story" with its lyrics " I like to be in America, Okay by me in America" follows Dick Cheney speaking to the camera: " I will not apologize for keeping your family safe." There are no heroes in this film, only ruthless power brokers and a nod to Cheney's public acceptance of his daughter's lesbianism. Incriminations reign and it is hard to be entertained by them. "Vice" is about vice.
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"Three Billboards Outside Of Ebbing, Missouri" is one of the most intricately plotted films I have seen since "Murder On The Orient Express". We begin with three ragged billboards and a rear view mirror image of Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes. Her sad eyes spawn an idea. She strokes her chin, bites her nails, and backs her car up: she is going to stoke her anger for the whole county to see.
Mildred becomes known as "The Billboard Lady". For a year, she rents ( for 5,000 dollars a month) the three roadside signs. Blood red backgrounds hold her three messages: "RAPED WHILE DYING" ; "AND STILL NO ARRESTS"; "HOW COME , CHIEF WILLOUGHBY ?"
Her determination for revenge is so great that we think of teaching our children " anger danger" along with "stranger danger". The local priest tells Mildred: "Everyone is with you about Angela, but no one is with you on this."
Church seemingly has nothing to offer Mildred. The priest deplores the revenge-filled billboards, and tells her so. Mildred gives him a hate-filled diatribe, but later is cleansed by her burning suffering. McDormand is not exactly a Phoenix rising, but rather a more rational and compassionate soul after a series of horrendous misjudgments alter other lives, yet still keeps her seeking her daughter's killer.
We learn about Angela, Mildred's murdered daughter and begin to understand Mildred's crazed anger. Mildred's guilt for words spoken is paramount. Angela's brother Robbie, played by Lucas Hedges of " Manchester By-The-Sea" fame, is grieving, too, and his mother's unconstrained ways embarrass him. Her outing to the dentist, her small town encounters, all trail unwanted stories.
An unhinged revenge film this could be, yet the thought that what we do to each other matters gives this film a depth that garnered The Golden Globe Best Dramatic Picture.
Writer and director, Martin McDonagh, has created a screenload of characters who are as interesting and insight-producing as I have seen. Golden Globe accolades have been given also to McDormand for Best Actress and to Sam Rockwell for Best Supporting Actor.
The Oscars are just weeks away! And more honors are certainly to be won.
The police chief and subject of Mildred's wrath is Willoughby, played by Woody Harrelson. He is a good man, who is dying of pancreatic cancer and will leave a young family behind. Mildred does not identify with his pain, even after he shoots himself. The film often surprises and shocks as it moves are sympathies around one character and then another. We learn that revenge does not ease pain, and that some people are slower learners than others in that anger begets anger.
Dinner with James ( Peter Dinklage) proves ineffective as a softener . Mildred wears her headband bandanna like Rambo's sister. Her ex-husband, Charlie, ( John Hawkes ) is in the restaurant with his young date. Charlie's date brings some comic relief with her dumb-witted remarks and questions. "Polio" and "polo" tend to confuse her. Hawkes does a superb job of showing his deeper connection to Mildred while not able to deal with her unchained sorrow. He is more than a neck-grabber.
Fire serves as symbol again and again. After Willoughby's suicide, Sam Rockwell plays the role of a lifetime as Dixon. Dixon was Willoughby's protegee. He is grieving, too, for the only man in town who did not make fun of his denseness. Dixson's mother is the stereotyped racist ( Sandy Martin ). We come to understand him, and we champion his remarkable growth as a person who shows profound change for the better.
Does grief kill empathy? An incredible nature visitation (or what I call the fawn sequence ) tells us "No". This film is quite an emotional ride.
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Q: Printing a hidden table with JavaScript I have a page with one table, that is paginated, showing only 10 entries per page, and I need to print to paper the entire table at once, so I've made one hidden table, without pagination and with all the entries, and I'm trying to print it with Print.js, but the printing preview always show a blank page. I've already tried @media print but it doesn't work at all.
CSS:
.printable {
    display: none;
}

@media print {
    .printable {
        display: block;
    }
}

PHP page:

Relatórios de Envio

                            ID
                            Código de Envio
                            Mensagem de envio
                            Data de envio

                        <?php foreach($envios as $envio): ?>

                                <?= esc($envio->id) ?>
                                <?= esc($envio->codigo) ?>
                                <?= esc($envio->log) ?>
                                <?= esc($envio->data) ?>

                        <?php endforeach ?>

And the printing script:
function printRelat(){
    printJS('relatPrint', 'html')
}

A: I could solve the issue by entirely doing the display handling by jQuery and totally forgetting the CSS.
PHP now is:

Relatórios de Envio

                            ID
                            Código de Envio
                            Mensagem de envio
                            Data de envio

                        <?php foreach($envios as $envio): ?>

                                <?= esc($envio->id) ?>
                                <?= esc($envio->codigo) ?>
                                <?= esc($envio->log) ?>
                                <?= esc($envio->data) ?>

                        <?php endforeach ?>

And the script:
function printRelat(){
    $('.printable').css('display', 'block');
    printJS('relatPrint', 'html');
    $('.printable').css('display', 'none');
}


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Авл Манлій Вульсон (; близько 515 до н. е. — після 450 до н. е.) — політичний, державний і військовий діяч часів ранньої Римської республіки, консул 474 року до н. е.

Життєпис
Походив з патриціанського роду Манліїв. Молодший син Гнея Манлія Цинцінната, консула 480 року до н. е. Про молоді роки відсутні відомості.

У 474 році до н. е. його було обрано консулом разом з Луцієм Фурієм Медулліном. Під час каденції вів успішну війну проти етруського міста-держави Вейї, змусивши останні вести перемовини та укласти мирну угоду терміном на 40 років. За власний рахунок утримував військо впродовж кампанії. Після її завершення отримав від римського сенату право на овацію.

У 473 році до н. е. його було притягнуто до суду народним трибуном Гнеєм Генуцієм за нерозподіл земель поміж плебеями. Утім, в день початку судового засідання Генуцій раптово помер, тому судове переслідування припинилося.

У 454 році до н. е. патриції під тиском плебеїв змушені були погодитися з пропозицією народного трибуна Гая Терентілія Арси щодо складання законів. Для вивчення досвіду сенат відправив Вульсона разом з Сервієм Сульпіцієм Камеріном Корнутом та Спурієм Постумієм Альбом Регілленом до міст Великої Греції, а звідси до Афін.

Після повернення у 452 році до н. е. Вульсона було обрано до колегії децемвірів на 451 рік до н. е., потім його перебування було продовжено на 450 рік до н. е. Разом з колегами керував державою та брав участь у складанні Законів Дванадцяти таблиць. Незважаючи на відсутність в джерелах єдиної думки про преномен Авла Манлія, вважають, що консул і децемвір — одна і та ж особа. Хоча є певні протиріччя - дуже велика вікова різниця між ним і його сином. Можливо це син, внук його, а ще існував син Авла Манлія Вульсона, повний його тезка, що й був децемвіром 450-451 років до н. е.

Про подальшу долю Авла Манлія Вульсона з того часу нічого невідомо.

Родина
 Авл Манлій Вульсон Капітолін, військовий трибун з консульською владою 405, 402, 397 років до н. е.

Джерела
 Тит Лівій, Ab urbe condita II 54; III 33, 3.
 T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic: Volume I, 509 B.C. — 100 B.C., New York, The American Philological Association, coll., 1951, p.28-29, 43-45
 Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgardiae 1999, T. 7, c. 827

Манлії Вульсони

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Therapy, identity, hope: Hot checks put her in jail; art may help her out
by Lara Jo Hightower | May 6, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.
Bandit Ball "When us ladies are able to go out to the rec yard, we tie our bandanas (masks) into a ball, use our flip flops as a bat, and play ball."
Right off the bat, it's important to Celina Coleman that you know she takes full responsibility for the crimes that landed her in the Benton County Jail, where she speaks to a reporter via a rather complicated phone system that requires depositing money into an online account. The phone calls are limited to 15 minutes, after which the call is abruptly cut off. Five 15-minute phone calls cost just under $30 to conduct. Emailing Coleman costs money too, and she has to pay to read and reply to any email correspondence she receives. It's a daunting process for a reporter who is speaking to an inmate for the first time -- and an expensive one, especially for those already struggling with poverty prior to being incarcerated. But, for Coleman, who has been in and out of the system since 2015, it's old hat.
"The whole thing is pretty traumatic, getting used to the processes that the prisons and jails put you through," she acknowledges. "You have to learn how to engage with people. Because you never know who you're going to come across. I'm not going to say that there are bad people in jail, but the things that they've gone through have may have hardened them, so they react in a certain way."
Coleman's voice is calm and level as she walks through the past six years of her life: When she was 19, she was arrested for forging checks. After serving her time, she was jailed several more times for not complying with the terms of her parole -- usually because it was difficult to find a job with a felony on her record, and she struggled to keep up with the fines and fees she was required to pay after release. Then, in 2018, she forged checks again -- and that crime landed her in the Wrightsville Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. Coleman is blunt about her past, and she makes no excuses for herself. She will be released at the end of May and, this time, she says, she'll be out of the system for good.
One thing giving her this confidence is her artwork. For Coleman, art has always been a salvation, an outlet that takes her mind off of troubled times and rocky waters, and she hopes to utilize that skill and passion in a career in art therapy once she's out. Her great-grandmother Faye, a veteran of the War Eagle Craft Fair, was the first person who fostered Coleman's urge to create by paying for her to receive a year's worth of instruction from a local artist when Coleman was 7. Coleman soon discovered drawing was a way to both express and manage her emotions.
"I had a good childhood, but it wasn't the best," she says hesitantly. "I'm sure there are worse childhoods out there. But family fights, things like that -- my art was more of an escape for me. It was a comfort zone. I love the colors. I love making my own little world, if that makes sense. And so I kind of dove deep into that. Every piece of art that I've done has a piece of me in it. So they're all kind of like a mini-story."
When Coleman was in high school, things got really rocky: Her father, with whom she was close, was sentenced to serve time in prison. Later that same year, the family home burned down, destroying the bulk of Coleman's artwork. Disheartened, she fell out of the habit of using her art to help her heal and, instead, turned to school sports. After graduation, Coleman attended a Kansas community college to play volleyball. While her life might have seemed like it was on track, it wasn't. She was still wrestling with family-related pain and dropped out of school to move back home. Struggling financially, she forged checks on her father's account. When he found out, he called the police. Though he later refused to press charges, the state did. When Coleman participated in a mural project while serving time in a Regional Punishment Facility program, she was reminded of how much art influenced her mental health.
"I connected with other women there, as well," Coleman says. "They would ask me to do personalized birthday cards, portraits of their family members, to send home more of a personal touch for people."
Once released, Coleman tried to get her life back on track. With a felony on her record now, both employment and housing became infinitely more difficult to obtain. Fines and fees -- like the $35 per month probation fees -- piled up and went unpaid, landing her back in jail a few times as a result. She also owed restitution for the checks she had forged. Then, in 2018, she found out she was pregnant.
"I didn't know what to do; I hadn't really continued to stabilize myself financially," she says. "I was trying to pay fines and fees and couldn't catch up. And I ended up forging checks again. And that sent me down to Wrightsville prison."
Coleman's experience is not unique -- a 2012 Arkansas Department of Corrections report found that the recidivism rate of Arkansas inmates is nearly 52 percent. Coleman says she had a strong friend and family support circle, but that wasn't enough to help her avoid the common pitfalls faced by those recently released from imprisonment. And this time, with an unborn child in the mix, the stakes were higher. She was jailed for much of the pregnancy, awaiting trial, and was eight months pregnant when sentenced to Wrightsville. She was able to see the baby for 24 hours after giving birth in a hospital, shackled to the bed.
"It's not something that I would ever wish on anybody," she says. "You know, people make mistakes. But for a woman to ever go through that, it's very hard."
The next time she saw her baby was around six weeks later, in the visiting room of Wrightsville.
"When I sat down and held her, she just stared at me," remembers Coleman. "And my mom kind of looked at me and started crying. And she told me that it was like my daughter was trying to memorize my face. One of my biggest fears is that she wasn't going to recognize me or know who I was just because of her being taken from me 24 hours after giving birth to her. But it was like she knew me automatically. She was comfortable. She didn't even cry. She giggled, she smiled. She fell asleep in my arms. It really eased my mind and my heart with everything."
With her daughter safe with her mother while she was locked up, Coleman tried to make the most of her time at Wrightsville.
"That was also where my art came into play," she recalls. "I met a woman who had a newborn baby, as well, and we became really close. She didn't have a picture of her husband and her child together, so she showed me a picture of her babies and her husband, and I ended up drawing a portrait of them together, where he was holding her baby in his arms. And then she was able to look at that every day. That became a kind of healing process for me. I wasn't the only woman pregnant in there. And it could have been worse -- my baby could have been taken from me, could have been put in DHS. Not everyone has a family member who is willing and able to take on the responsibility of a newborn."
She was released on Dec. 8, 2019 -- but the system wasn't finished with her yet. She says she still had an outstanding court case in Benton County, where she passed one of the three forged checks she was arrested for. Washington and Pulaski counties agreed to have her sentences run concurrently, Benton County did not. So instead of going home on Dec. 8, she was picked up by transport for Benton County and taken to the Benton County Jail.
"My grandmother actually bailed me out so I could spend my first Christmas with my daughter, for our first Christmas together," says Coleman. "It's something that I struggled with. I did the crime, I'm owning up to it, I'm going to do what I need to do to get past it, to reconcile with my victim, things of that sort. But at the same time, it's just -- how much more are you going to take away from me? Even though I'm trying to battle and get through all this? The emotional turmoil, it just kind of snowballs a little bit sometimes."
Her case spent the next year-and-a-half winding its way through the court system. Her case spent the next year-and-a-half winding its way through the court system, and Coleman was determined to make the most of that time. She had a place to live, eventually got a job with the Taco Bell corporation and was able to start moving up the ladder there. She made plans to go back to school to pursue an art therapy career. Her hope was to get financially stable enough to take back custody of her daughter. When Benton County approached her with a deal for 120 days in the Benton County Jail -- a significant reduction from the eight years she says they were pushing for at first -- she took it.
When she went away this time, Coleman at least knew what to expect. That doesn't make it any easier, she says.
"I can say for nearly all of the people who have been or are incarcerated, that time and space is a huge battle to face while incarcerated," she wrote from the Benton County jail. "Time never ceases for anyone. We do the crime, we know we do the time in here. That's something we all accept. With that being said, people come in and out so often. It's a constant reminder of the amount of life we are spending due to our mistake. A lot of us have children and, of course, families that we are anxious to get home to. When it comes to space, there is little of it. You can pretty much compare it to seeing hamsters at a PetSmart. Some of us are pacing in an open area, others are trying to sleep, and the rest are in a daze. The noise is like a food court in a shopping mall. It doesn't stop. Everyone has a different mentality, that includes morals and values. It's a mixing pot in here. Due to the circumstances, someone can do something that annoys you or insults you, and you have the choice to act out on it or sit with it. Every move you make is vital and more often than not ... you're required to build tolerance. It's a humbling process if you develop the patience for it."
For Coleman, using her art as a diversion helps her with the patience part.
"It's more for comic relief," she says. "Because there's no getting away from the room that you're in. You can't go outside, you can't get away from the constant chitchat. Women are talking 24/7. It's just nonstop."
Release will offer a slate of challenges with which she's familiar and which have felled her once before. She estimates she'll owe somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000 in fees and fines, not including the $35 per month charge for probation. Being incarcerated is an expensive business, with the burden falling on people who, often, are low-income to start out with. Fees can pile up quickly -- for example, while inside, visits to the nurse cost $20, and if medicine is prescribed, inmates must pay $5 per pill administered. Any fees remaining on the inmate's account are rolled into the fees owed at the end of the sentence. Coleman's success post-sentencing is dependent on whether she's able to get a decent paying job that will allow her to keep up with the monthly payments she has to make in order to be in compliance with her parole.
For her part, Coleman is optimistic about the future -- a place she got to only by looking at her past as a difficult learning process.
"I do wholeheartedly, because I wouldn't be the person that I am today if he had not," she says when asked if she forgives her father for turning her in for her first infraction. "I wouldn't even have my daughter if things would have gone differently. I'm thankful for it because it's put me in a lot of situations where I've learned a lot. Certainly had some hard outcomes, but I wouldn't change any of it. So I definitely forgive him. Because I know that good-hearted people make mistakes all the time. It's not only bad people who make mistakes. It's good-hearted people, whether they get caught or not.
"I had to learn how to love myself, to become comfortable in my own skin, even through the most difficult times. We're all perfectly imperfect. Pain that isn't transformed gets transmitted through generational movement. I want my daughter to grow up knowing that it's OK to make mistakes. It's about how you get back up and move forward. We all have a story to tell, and we would all learn that we have more in common with one another if we became more vulnerable and open."
Ultimately, she says, she hopes what she's learned will help make her better at her chosen career path -- art therapy.
"Being in here, seeing all different walks of life and the people and the things that they go through, I can honestly say I have met the most loyal people in jail and prison," she says. "When you connect with people in here, and you hear what they've gone through, it becomes easier and more necessary to see them in a different light."
All Knowing "Sadly enough, there is no solitude here. Even when in deep conversation, there's always someone 'in your mouth,' as we like to say. This person makes it known they're staring at your lips, figurout out everything you're saying."
Celina Coleman is working on a series of drawings that depict her life while incarcerated for a collection she's calling "Violet on the Inside." This drawing is called "Table Shark." "Oftentimes in these jail settings, there are a few individuals that 'shark out' others' trays to satisfy their un-ending hunger inflicted by boredom," she says of this drawing. Coleman says that people new to incarceration are often anxious and can't eat, while those who have been in the setting for a while are always on the hunt for extra food.
Celina Coleman is using her art — like this self-portrait — to change the trajectory of her life in a more positive direction. (Courtesy Photo)


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