FORGIVENESS & BRIDGING DIVIDES

Care Packages for the Man Who Shot Him

A story about the human capacity for forgiveness

Piper Hendricks
4 min readFeb 5, 2024

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A cardboard box open at the top with a smiley face imprinted on the lower righthand corner
Photo by Alex Marc Wagner

Many years ago, I attended an event at an organization that was also hosting an exhibit called “Guns in the Hands of Artists.” Inspired by a young boy who was killed by a stray bullet in a drive-by shooting, artist Brian Borrello took guns

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Piper Hendricks

Stubborn Optimist. Pondering Nomad. Not-yet-recovered Workaholic, but working hard on that. I write about advocacy, balance, words, being real, and being human.