Bloom Where You Are Planted

This blog was created March 11, 2015. The contents of this blog contain correspondence between Chuckwa Don Crabtree and Gina Gillispie.

Although the two have never met, they became friends via mail when Gina, editor of an online news site, first reported Chuckwa's story.

When Gina saw his arrest photo, there was something that tugged at her to believe this person had a story to tell.

She mailed her first letter September 7, 2012 and they have been writing ever since.

After several years, Chuckwa decided he wanted to begin to tell his life story and send a message of hope to those who still have choices to make...his goal is to spend his time doing good things and good work right where he is....

Chuckwa has decided...to bloom where he is planted.

The posts that you will read will be a mix of old letters, stories about his everyday life in the James V. Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas and stories from his boyhood growing up along the creek in Palo Pinto County, Texas.

He signs his letters...."The Callisburg Kid"

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

RODEO COWBOY

Chuckwa loved his horses...he spent a lot of time with them
in fact...he loved all animals
he is a nature lover who enjoyed having lots of different farm animal pets
dogs, horses, goats
he even let one of his coon hounds nurse a coyote pup
What about a pet skunk?  Yes that too!

Chuckwa and little brother Chris are doing what most young men their age do in rural Texas--
they join 4-H and show animals


"Later I started riding bareback and bulls in local rodeos."

"I got on my first bareback when I was in the 4th grade and my last bull at age 26."


Chuckwa and Chris show off their new chaps
every rodeo cowboy needs a pair of chaps!

This was when life was simple for Chuckwa....a good boy with an innocent boyish charm...but life was about to prove to him what it proves to us all....

sometimes life gets hard


"I got married the first time at the age of 16 and took life by the horns.  I was ready to get away from problems that had brewed up over the years with my dad, due to his problems with drinking."

Heartache is about to come to play in the road up ahead.


 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit--Psalm 34:18
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