Memory, music, survival, faith, love, and everything that falls between them. Browse the entire archive or choose a prism and follow its stories through the spectrum.
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Every person you have ever loved is standing at the end of an impossible chain of things that could have gone differently. Think about what had to happen for you to be sitting wherever you are right now, reading these...
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My last steps looked almost like dancing. There was no one there to see them. No music was playing in the kitchen. I was simply doing something I had done hundreds of times before, sliding my feet across the cool tile...
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By the time Indianapolis became my playground, Lighthouse Mission had become the place where I returned every night. It was where I slept, showered, kept my duffel bag and learned the peculiar choreography of living i...
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In the summer of 2006, everything I owned fit inside a duffel bag, and every night I slept with my head on top of it. I was staying at Lighthouse Mission in downtown Indianapolis with roughly two hundred other men. Ab...
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