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Remember sending your new baseball through the front window for the first time? Or maybe it was the time you, out of exuberant love, swung your teddy bear around so quickly that it knocked your mom’s favorite vase clean off the coffee table. As you heard the glass shatter and watched the shards glide across the wood floor of her living room, something gripped you from the pit of your stomach and held you motionless for just a second. One second ago what once seemed constant, unchanging, maybe even unbreakable now sits quite broken at your feet.
When something breaks before our eyes its grips us, even if just for an instant. It’s that moment that we want to take you back to over and over again with this Spring 2012 issue of Focus.
Windows and vases break, but so do walls and norms and seemingly unconquerable mountains. Waco, like any city, is full of these walls, norms and mountains, these breakthroughs waiting to happen.
The most segregated hour in America? A downtown sitting in years of disrepair? A Waco teen who lost both parents? A family of drug addicts?
One second they’re unbreakable, unconquerable scenarios, and the next the walls and mountains sit like piles of broken glass at your feet.
The walls come in all shapes and sizes, but they share one thing in common: they can break. It might take a more intentional effort than an errant baseball or a swinging stuffed bear, but Waco is watching its citizens shatter norms, stereotypes, odds, addictions, and expectations.
The glass shards are stacking up. Enjoy the breakthroughs.
Ashley Yeaman and Matt Larsen
Editors Focus Spring 2012
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