PRISM OF A LIFE
Twelve Ways of Seeing

The Prisms

A life changes depending on where the light enters. These are twelve ways of looking at the same life, each one revealing a different color in the story.

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PRISM 01
Prism 01

Survival

I have nearly died more than once. The stranger story is what happened every time I woke up.

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PRISM 02
Prism 02

The Lost Years

Addiction, homelessness, jail, mistakes, broken relationships, and years I once wanted erased. Now I wonder what they were trying to teach me.

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PRISM 03
Prism 03

Trauma

Some things happen once and echo for decades. These are the stories of those echoes, and what happened when I finally turned around to face them.

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PRISM 04
Prism 04

Disabilities

Paralysis changed almost everything about how I move through the world. It did not end my life. It forced me to discover what a life could become.

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PRISM 05
Prism 05

Mental Health

My own mind has been a sanctuary, a battlefield, and sometimes a place I could barely recognize. I'm learning how to live inside it.

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PRISM 06
Prism 06

Love

I thought love was something you found. Then one woman taught me it can also be the place you survive inside.

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PRISM 07
Prism 07

Music

Some songs became memories. Others became maps. A few found me when I was no longer sure I wanted to be found.

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PRISM 08
Prism 08

Childhood

Before I understood trauma, I simply called it growing up. Memory has given that child a language he did not have then.

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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.

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PRISM 10
Prism 10

Faith

I lost God, argued with Him, ignored Him, and eventually began looking for Him again. I'm still learning what happened in between.

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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?

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PRISM 12
Prism 12

The Whole Spectrum

Not every story belongs inside one color. This is where the light gets messy, the prisms overlap, and ordinary life sneaks in.

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Prism of a LifeOne Life · Twelve Prisms

Follow whichever color catches the light.

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