Renewed Voice | Michael Daavettila’s Journey Back to Speech
May 13, 2020
It’s a simple harmonica mount. An altogether nondescript nickel-plated halo that hugs its wearer’s neck. It holds in place a similarly unpretentious harmonica between the jaws of a spring clamp. […]
Marty Ewing | Full Send or No Send
October 18, 2019
The arrow strikes the coyote decoy above the kneebend of its hind leg. Barely a hit, the point only sinks in for the firmness of the target’s foam. Given a […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Narrates the Story of Injured Race Car Driver Josh Jackson | Drive and Dreams: Grassroots Racing in America
October 2, 2019
Celebrated dirt track race car driver Josh Jackson has triumphed beyond greater hardships than most people will ever know. After sustaining a near-fatal brain injury as the result of a […]
Shane Hultine | Taking the Plunge
September 20, 2019
Even before the end of his rehabilitation at QLI, Shane Hultine had a vision. “Nevermind it,” was his vision. Nevermind the spinal cord injury that had made his life so very […]
Garrett Sherley | How a QLI Boot Camp Sparked the Next Chapter of Lifelong Progress
September 3, 2019
Garrett Sherley is a different man now. He’s a different man than he was in 2014, when—just 21 and stationed in Georgia for his tenure in the United States Army—he […]
Jeremy Wolzen | Building a Better Self
August 15, 2019
In 2018, QLI launched GRIT, a one-of-a-kind adaptive functional fitness program. The program, led by CrossFit icons Stacie and Dustin Tovar and QLI’s director of nutritional services, Stephanie Roob, has […]
Father Glen Wilwerding | A Morning at Ragbrai, A Glimpse of Recovery
July 25, 2019
The rain falls in sheets. Big, heavy drops like coins coming straight down from a textureless overcast sky. They land with pelting force, slapping noisily off the cars and RVs […]
Craig Engel | The Pieces Together Again
July 12, 2019
Craig Engel begins each day at 3:00 a.m. In that quiet hour he works through a practiced morning routine. He double-checks the day’s date and the weather with an […]
Josh Jackson | Challenging a Brain Injury, and Winning
January 31, 2019
An hour ago, the New Mexico landscape was visible all the way to the horizon. Cracked earth, desert scrub. In the distance, the hazy silhouettes of great sandstone mountains cut […]
Rifet Hasanbasic | The Image of Progress
October 30, 2018
Rifet Hasanbasic pulls on an elastic resistance band tied in a knot around the strut of a weight machine, his hands tethered to it at the wristbraces with carabiner clips. […]