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Healing with purpose
May 2021

Healing with purpose
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
The concrete gardener
2021

The concrete gardener
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
A singular virtue: "Authenticity within the crisis of confidence"
August 2020

A singular virtue: "Authenticity within the crisis of confidence"

 A Singular Virtue: "Authenticity Within the Crisis of Confidence" By: Michael Flinner (San Quentin Death Row / August 2020) Surely, everyone reading this must know at least one person suffering from the intense grip and...
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
An agreement whose time has come
June 11, 2020

An agreement whose time has come

 An Agreement Whose Time Has Come Greetings, My name is Michael Flinner. I'm a 53 year old California State Prisoner with a rather straight forward purpose for this missive. Please indulge me. Several years ago,...
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
Inmate organs plasma donor project 2020
2020

Inmate organs plasma donor project 2020

 Inmate Organs Plasma Donor Project 2020 Life is fleeting. It seems like only yesterday that my sentence of death was made public in a San Diego courtroom – that was nearly two decades ago. With...
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
When life got complicated
July 27, 2018

When life got complicated

 WHEN LIFE GOT COMPLICATED Viktor E. Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who founded what he called the field of "Logotherapy", which has been dubbed the "Third Viennese School of Psychology" (following Freud and...
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
Replacing destruction with life "weighing inmate organ donation"
June 18, 2018

Replacing destruction with life "weighing inmate organ donation"

 As Donors State prison administrations typically DO NOT permit prisoners to donate LIVING vital organs and tissues to anyone. The Federal Bureau of Prisons however, permit organ donation by inmates ONLY when the intended recipient...
Flinner, MichaelCalifornia
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If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors.

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