Love Still Matters
Every now and then, love gives us a moment that reminds us why this work matters.
Recently, Let’s Choose Love had the honor of welcoming grantee Tracy Selsor and his partner, Corrina Michalowski, to Asheville for a special Love Hub Gathering. They traveled all the way from California to spend time with members of the Let’s Choose Love community, including our founder, Wendy White, board members, ambassadors, coaches, former grantees, and supporters who believe in the power of love in action.
The gathering was hosted at the home of Let’s Choose Love board member Alan Davis. It was more than a social event. It was a moment of connection, encouragement, storytelling, and shared purpose. Several members of the Let’s Choose Love family were present, including Alan Davis, Jane Nabors, Nicole Corn, Wendy White, former grantee Dan Miller, and others who came together to welcome Tracy and Corrina with open arms.
Tracy’s story is one of transformation.
After spending much of his life incarcerated, Tracy experienced a powerful shift through an unexpected encounter in a prison library. While incarcerated, he came across The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, a book focused on strengths-based change and transformation. What he read began to change how he saw himself, his environment, and what could be possible.
Instead of only seeing the problems around him, Tracy began asking different questions. He started having conversations with fellow incarcerated individuals and correctional officers. He began imagining what it could look like for prison yards to become places of community, learning, and healing instead of places defined by fear, violence, and survival.
That vision stayed with him.
After his release, Tracy continued carrying that dream forward. He reached out to Let’s Choose Love after learning about our mini-grants, which support individuals and small nonprofits with Give Back Dreams. His vision was bold: to gather stories, film interviews, and eventually create a proposal for transforming prison culture through Appreciative Inquiry and community-centered change.
Let’s Choose Love awarded Tracy a mini-grant to support this work, along with coaching support. Wendy White volunteered to serve as his coach, and what began as a grant relationship has grown into a meaningful partnership rooted in trust, purpose, and possibility.
That is what Love Hubs are all about.
They create space for people to gather, listen, dream, encourage, and build. They remind us that community is not created through programs alone. Community is created when people open their homes, share their stories, offer their gifts, and choose to believe in one another.
During Tracy and Corrina’s visit, the Let’s Choose Love community had the opportunity to hear more about Tracy’s vision and the work he is continuing to build through storytelling, speaking, consulting, and prison culture transformation. His dream is not small, and that is exactly why it matters.
The evening also gave everyone something simple and beautiful to remember. Tracy and former grantee Dan Miller were able to sit together and play guitar, creating a moment that reflected the heart of the gathering itself: connection, joy, creativity, and community. It was one of those moments that could not have been scripted, but perfectly captured the spirit of Let’s Choose Love.
Love does not ask people to shrink their vision.
Love creates room for vision to grow.
This gathering was a beautiful reminder that the work of Let’s Choose Love is not only about funding projects. It is about activating people. It is about helping ordinary people with extraordinary stories move closer to the impact they are called to make.
From California to Asheville, this moment reminded us that love still travels. Love still gathers. Love still restores. Love still creates pathways for healing, connection, music, and change.