Press play to listen to my book The Butterfly Chronicles. It is a brutally honest portrayal of a life layered with pain, helplessness, hopelessness, loss, and a precocious knowledge about drugs and violence that no child should ever learn. However, there was also hope and faith that propelled the main character out of what could have been more broken dreams, desperation and a continuation of the cycle of violence that have entrapped too many. The transformation reminds us of how essential it is for us to nurture the spirit of all humanity, to nurture the good out of the bad and to know that we all matter.