I found out that our place of worship was burning around 2 a.m.
Back when we were still St. Louis kids, and before we had kids of our own, my friends talked about turning the long-abandoned Catholic church into a skatepark.
We sat in piles of wrists and legs and hormones to claim our space on the concrete.
For over a decade, I chased achievement elsewhere: New York City, Los Angeles, Boston.
But it was in returning home that I became a part of building something increasingly rare and meaningful: a community.
Persons:
Louis
Organizations:
Shell
Locations:
New York City, Los Angeles, Boston