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When Aapa Kuita-Seiuli walks through the doors of Victorian Village each morning, she isn’t just arriving at work. She’s stepping into a place that has become a second home. Most people here know her as Anna, a steady and joyful presence in the halls, a woman whose compassion seems to brighten every hallway she walks through.…

Jim Burch never imagined he’d become an artist. He grew up far from galleries, on Ohio tenement farms where nothing stayed put for long. His family were sharecroppers who moved every few years. The equipment was old, the repairs were constant, and improvising was a way of life. If something broke, you didn’t replace it. You bent it back, wired it together, and coaxed it into working again. Jim watched and helped.…

Their uniforms may be long put away, but the values they learned in service never left them. Years later they received the invitation to participate in the Honor Flight: a single day in Washington, D.C., filled with memorials, mail call, and long-overdue thank-yous. Around a table in Independent Living at Park Place of Elmhurst, they shared those memories with humor, humility, and the steady clarity of people who have seen multiple changes in their lifetimes.…

She also treasures the sense of community. We welcome the new people. We look out for each other. This really is a community.”…