Liz Rymarev

3 weeks ago | texasstandard.org | Elizabeth Myong |Liz Rymarev

Seven years ago when she was in high school, Onoriose’s dad gifted her the mirror. Since her father died in 2023, she said her mirror has become deeply meaningful. “He just walked in my room and put the mirror on the wall and I was just like, ‘Cool, a mirror in my bedroom.’ I didn’t think much of it until now that he’s no longer here with me. Like this mirror, it’s like I get him now.”She plans to take her mirror anywhere she lives.

1 month ago | texasstandard.org | Marcheta Fornoff |Liz Rymarev

From KERA News:Kevin Jackson Jr. weighed less than two pounds when he was born four months early. Twenty-nine years later, his mother Darvetra Parker still calls him a miracle. “He is totally blind,” Parker said. He also has autism. “He is a miracle, and that is even more reason why I’m so proud of him, because he’s very tenacious and he has a very strong will.”But it’s a challenge to find activities for him now that he’s an adult. A new nonprofit is working to fill that gap.