PRISM OF A LIFE
PRISM 09
Prism 09

Family

Blood, adoption, absence, loyalty, forgiveness, and the people we choose to call home. Family has never been a simple word in my life.

Scroll Into the Stories
Through This Prism

One life,
seen through family.

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.

2 EssaysAnd Growing
Family

Essays Through This Prism

Family12 MIN READ

The Day My Body Went Silent

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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Family11 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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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.