As you may remember, in an earlier entry (July 2020) I wrote about Jarvis Masters who is currently incarcerated on death row at San Quentin, California. San Francisco Zen Center and Berkeley Zen Center have had many years of contact with the prisoners there.
Hozan Alan Senauke, the Abbot of BZC recently sent this email:

Jarvis called some of us yesterday to say we should tune in to CBS Mornings today for some amazing news, though he wouldn’t say what it was. Well, I watched this morning as Oprah Winfrey announced Jarvis Master’s autobiographical book, That Bird Has My Wings, as her latest Book Club choice. See today's excellent segment here (You have to wade through a commercial first.): https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/qZCeUchUs4wiP2SpyGEf_cKFBg71YBUd/

This wonderful news comes as this extraordinary legal team have filed a federal appeal of Jarvis Masters’ California capitol conviction for a crime he did not commit. Jarvis, his supporters and friends are optimistic about this new appeal. In a short time, Jarvis could be a free man after 33 years on San Quentin’s death row, free to share his wisdom and energies in society at large. Here is a link to a press release and further information about his case.

https://www.freejarvis.org/press-release

Peace,

Hozan