I’d like to share VAULT’s creation and inspiration that has taken over 25 years.
By the time I was 20 years old, both my parents died. I lost my mother to suicide. At times, It wasn’t an easy upbringing. I knew little about my mother and even less about her parents and grandparents. Today, I am 46 years old. I have so many questions I want to ask my parents, but do not have that opportunity or access. Oftentimes, this has left me sad and devoid. In addition, I suffered some traumatic losses in my life, suddenly losing my two best friends, one to homicide.
Rounding out life, I married an incredible woman who has a strained relationship with her sisters. Their personal issues inadvertently bled onto her sisters children, unfortunately resulting in my wife having never met her nieces and nephews. Yet, she still speaks with her sisters periodically. I started thinking about my own sibling, our strained relationship and the nieces I have never met. They are at an age where they are asking their daddy (my brother) questions about me.