There’s a moment in every city when you realize it’s more than streets and schedules. It’s people crossing paths. Stories being exchanged. Possibilities quietly taking root.

Faye Lane is not just a storyteller—she is a civic weaver, someone whose life’s work gently stitches individual lives together through narrative, empathy, and shared humanity. A Texas-born, New York–based writer, performer, and motivational speaker, Faye’s work has taken her from beauty salons in small-town America to the stages of national stages and public radio.

This is a story about the Chapel that taught me what love really is. I was nineteen years old, standing on a curb in downtown Dallas, waiting for a bus and trying to disappear.

For more than four decades, Thanks-Giving Foundation has stood at the heart of Dallas’s annual National Day of Prayer observance, leading faith and civic leaders, multifaith communities, and generations of residents in a shared celebration of unity, reflection, and gratitude.

In a recent Dallas Morning News opinion piece, Kyle Ogden, President and CEO of the Thanks-Giving Foundation, invited readers to rethink what downtown Dallas can be—urging the city to move beyond basic infrastructure toward a civic center that inspires people every day.