Our Story
Meet Larry & Jasmine
Larry & Jasmine Hill
Founders of 5230: Man in Progress
Every man has a driveway.
The place he keeps returning to. The ground where the worst thing happened. He calls it haunting. He calls it weakness. He calls it proof that he has not healed.
He is wrong.
The driveway is not his prison. It is his preparation. And the highway he is looking for is on the other side of it.
“My Father
Larry C. Milon Sr.
The Driveway
Where it began. Where it almost ended.
Larry C. Milon Jr
Age 4, before the name change
My father was murdered on our white gravel driveway when I was four years old.
Twelve years later, I stood on that same white gravel driveway and put a gun to my head.
Fully loaded. It did not fire.
What followed was thirty years of breaking. Two heart attacks. A divorce. A child I had to bury. Homelessness. An uncle I watched lose his fight with addiction. A second-chance marriage I nearly destroyed before I understood what I was carrying.
Through all of it, I kept watching the same pattern repeat. Men would reach out for help. They would be handed: Go to church. Join a club. Make some friends.
Those are not solutions. They are suggestions.
And the suggestions are killing us.
Not just physically, though the statistics on male suicide, heart disease, and addiction speak for themselves. Men are dying spiritually: walking through church doors with no living faith behind their eyes. Dying emotionally: present in the house but absent from the marriage, the children, themselves. Dying financially: success on paper, bankruptcy in the soul. And yes, dying physically: by their own hand, by slow self-destruction, by bodies that finally give out from carrying weight they were never taught to name.
This is an epidemic. And band-aids do not treat epidemics.
The men I was watching needed surgery. They were being offered suggestions.
I am a Man in Progress, living proof that the same grace that jammed a loaded gun on a white gravel driveway is available to the man reading this right now.
