At 4 years old, Avery Lotz was visited every night by an imaginary friend emerging from the end of a conch shell. After a conversation with her mother, she learns her friend may be more familiar than she ever could’ve imagined … Read moreThe spirit in the shell

Debbi Walker was one of the good ones. Clutching to the few, sacred smiling photos in his camera roll, her son vows to live more presently in these moments, the way his mother always could … Read moreLearning to live in the present

As Edysmar Diaz-Cruz’s family struggled to make ends meet, sleeping on air mattresses and moving too quickly to call one place home, the only constant was her mother’s elephant statue, holding the last dollar her family would ever need. … Read moreMarch of the elephants