Hall of Heroes

Recovery is worth celebrating out loud. These are our heroes — people who decided, one day, to start, and then kept starting again every day since. Every name here gave permission to be listed. Lengths are figured from each person's sobriety date and update on their own — nobody has to count for them.

The Celebration Coins

Each coin is handmade — layered wood cut on the laser, a broken crayon at the center with the color shining through, and two truths around the rim: Broken crayons still color, and Planted, Not Buried. They're made in small batches, as time and materials allow, and handed out at milestone moments — so no, there isn't one for every name on this wall. Budd is one man with a laser, not a mint. But the words belong to everybody here. And inside every coin rides a lupine seed. That's the whole sermon: a seed in the ground isn't buried and done — it's planted, and planted things grow. So are the people on this wall.

Hear it the way it's given. Budd presenting the coin at a program completion, in his own voice (about 2 minutes):

Get Your Name on the Wall

Text us your name and your sobriety date at (252) 427-2966 — first and last name, or first name and last initial, however you want it listed — and we'll add you here and to the scrolling banner. Whether it's 30 years or 30 hours, it counts, and it tells somebody behind you that it can be done.