lizrose, Author at Strength After

Boston Marathon One Year Later: Stories of Creative Expression and Resilience

VIA Foundation for Art & Healing | April 15, 2014

I was called to write a song that victims of trauma could relate to.

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A year after the Boston Marathon bombing, victims and witnesses of the violence have found healing through artistic expression. Two musicians and two visual artists channeled their talents into healing their own trauma as well as the collective recovery of their community. Expressing the deep grief of their community while trying to reach for hope has helped them move a little closer to feeling whole again.

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I Survived: A Marie Claire Exclusive

VIA Marie Claire | June 14, 2013

I'm defined by how I have chosen to live my life.

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Over the last two decades, 7 women from across the country have found meaning and purpose from their experiences surviving and recovering from mass shootings. From speaking about their experiences to groups and other survivors of mass violence to studying conflict resolution and advocating for more effective gun laws, these survivors are committed to using their traumatic experiences for good in the world.

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Hurricane Katrina: Story From a Survivor

VIA Huffington Post | November 17, 2011

I’ll be recovering for the rest of my life.

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When Katrina hit, Allison Good was a sophomore in high school living in the suburbs. Her family’s home was flooded with 6 feet of water, and along with their possessions, she also lost her two cats. Despite the grief of losing all that—and being displaced for four months—Allison cultivated a deep appreciation for New Orleans culture that she’d never had before. But years later, it became harder to have a rosy outlook on the impact of Katrina. Her parents had sheltered her from news coverage at the time, so seeing photos and video of the horror and devastation the community endured was difficult years later.

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Portraits from a Storm

VIA Facebook (YouTube Channel) | May 5, 2011

To someone who’s lost everything, it can mean the world.

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In April 2011, storms tore across the South, and where Patty lived, there were 200 tornados in 24 hour span. While her home was safe, her heart went out to her neighbors near and far. She began picking up pieces of paper in front yard, finding everything from ultrasound photos to mail from over 100 miles away. Then she started posting what she found to a Facebook page, and in the span of a few hours, hundreds of other people were following her lead and posting the family memories they found as well.

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StoryCorps Griot: Surviving Katrina

VIA StoryCorps | August 28, 2007 Audio Story

I can’t replace this place. It’s a part of who we are.

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When Hurricane Katrina displaced people all throughout New Orleans, many of them flocked to the Superdome for refuge. Police Officer David Duplantier spent a week there while floodwaters rose around them, but people kept coming and help was limited. Reuniting with his wife Melissa was the happiest day of their lives, and they both still deeply love the city of New Orleans and intend to stay for good.

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Bobby Brown and Rufus Burkhalter

VIA StoryCorps | August 26, 2006 Audio Story

We stayed together and we did what we had to do to try to protect the city.

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Bobby Brown and Rufus Burkhalter have been coworkers for 20 years at a pump station in New Orleans. Despite the danger and tragedy they witnessed during their work when Hurricane Katrina hit, they’re both still deeply committed to the city they love and the people in it.

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John W. Taylor, Jr.

VIA StoryCorps | August 25, 2006 Audio Story

You don’t think those sort of things are important—until they’re not there.

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New Orleans was also homebase for John W. Taylor, Jr., who’d lived all over the country but found himself with little more than his truck after Hurricane Katrina hit. He knows for many of his neighbors, it’s too hard to see the city they love in such disarray, and even he’s not sure if he’ll be able to stay.

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Roy Calabrisi and Anthony Calabrisi

VIA StoryCorps | Audio Story

We're hanging in there, and that’s what really counts.

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Hurricane Katrina caused damage to virtually every structure St. Bernard’s Parish, home to brothers Anthony and Roy Calabrisi. At 77 and 83 years old respectively, they talked about the uncertainty of rebuilding their community in the twilight of their lives. They’re focusing on holding on and doing the best they can, a little bit at a time. If nothing else, they’re even closer as brothers than they were before the storm hit.

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Douglas P. deSilvey

VIA StoryCorps | Audio Story

Losing a family—I don’t think there’s any words for it.

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When you’re a native to the Gulf Coast, you get used to storms—but Hurricane Katrina, of course, was not just another storm. Douglas P. deSilvey was with his closest family members when the roof of their Mississippi home caved in on them, and he lost his wife, daughter, mother-in-law, and father-in-law. A year after such a tragic loss, he’s still trying to put his life back together and figure out what life means now.

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Kiersta Kurtz-Burke and Justin Lundgren

VIA StoryCorps | Audio Story

It was probably the biggest leap of faith of my life.

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As Hurricane Katrina approached, patients at Charity Hospital, which had been in operation for nearly 300 years, grew increasingly anxious that they might be left behind. Dr. Kiersta Kurtz-Burke focused on keeping her patients informed and calm, but eventually had to help them evacuate by putting them on boats.

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