PRISM OF A LIFE
PRISM 11
Prism 11

Becoming

For years I waited to become the person I used to be. Then I began asking a better question: who am I becoming now?

Scroll Into the Stories
Through This Prism

One life,
seen through becoming.

These are the pieces of my story that pass through this color. Some belong here completely. Others touch several prisms at once. Together they reveal one angle of a life that has never fit neatly inside a single story.

4 EssaysAnd Growing
Becoming

Essays Through This Prism

Becoming12 MIN READ

The Making of Forever

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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Becoming11 MIN READ

When The City Was Mine - Part Two

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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Becoming12 MIN READ

When The City Was Mine - Part One

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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Keep Following the Light

There are eleven other ways into the story.

Return to the spectrum and choose another prism, or step into the complete archive and follow the stories wherever they lead.