To be a different bird—that’s what I love. I’ve always been the one they didn’t want to hand the microphone to, the one with a little too much spirit for the crowd. Looking back many moons ago, here’s a true story: when I worked at the aluminum plant on the last day of my ninety-day probation, they gave me the worst puller they had—numb

“The Earth Angel Who Refused to Fall”by John DavisThe world breaks everyone, they say. And afterward, many are strong at the broken places. But there are some who refuse to break at all, even when the whole damn world tries. One of those men is Roy Dawson.He was not made from ordinary stuff. He was fire and silence, the kind of silence that mak