Like the plagues of the dark ages addiction and crime have decimated many of the once vibrant and thriving neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Not a single soul is unaffected by this reality. Some succumb. Some simply survive. But like an impossibly vibrant flower emerging from a pile of refuse, there are some who bloom and thrive and live! Edwin DesAmour is a force of nature. He is one of those unlikely hero’s most often found in the golden age of cinema but not here; not in this life. He and his unlikely band of ‘brothers’ share an indelible bond. It runs far deeper than blood. A bond of pain and loss and fear and the thrills of youth. A holy kinship. A brotherhood forged in the fiery ache of a childhood gone before it ever really was. Prison and judgement and redemption and second chances found and taken. The ache of a past remembered. The mighty striving of a tenacious hope that emerges like ethereal particles of light through rifts in an ominous thunder head. There is so much darkness to be seen but look for a moment and these rays appear and shimmer and reveal a stunning beauty. There is hope! It is evidenced everywhere! #CONNECTEDSeries #EPTWO #Philly #Kensington (at Kensington, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ClGBTn9XZ/?igshid=1jke4r8ymfa2
