found project

To be found isn’t just to be recovered.

It is to be anchored.

To be given ground again.

To be brought back into meaning.

In the Hill Country, we have lost lives.

Children. Mothers. Fathers. Daughters .

There are things the water carried away that will never return in the shape they once held.

But some things are still being found.

Jewelry in the mud.

Photos under rocks.

The edges of blankets.

A baby’s shoe.

And somehow, in this aching work of searching, we are being found too.

Found in our strength.

Found in our reverence.

Found in the way we say their names with clean hands and open hearts.

This isn’t just cleanup.

This is remembering.

This is belonging.

This is holy ground work.

To the families who lost, to the ones still waiting—

we carry your grief with the weight it deserves.

And we will keep going until every item, every name, every soul that wants to be found, is.

-dondi persyn

FOUNDER

FOUND ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER PROJECT