In Grand Rapids, Michigan, there is a program where inclusion isn’t an issue; it’s reality. Conductive Education, started in Hungary for children with physical disabilities a number of years ago, is fashioned in a way that doesn’t try to make kids strive for total normalcy. Instead, the program and its instructors embrace the children’s differences and mold both physical and scholarly activites around working with their limitations. Within the slower pace comes amazing growth of patience, physical abilities, and confidence.

In his earlier life, Kirk Gray was a practicing doctor with an addiction problem. After serving drug-related time in prison and losing what life he knew, Kirk found refuge at a place called the Khepera House, which houses men with addictions who are straight out of prison. After going through Khepera’s program, Kirk is now a House manager and stays on board to help others in return for what turned his life around. This is his story, I’m just here to tell it.