I am Grate Leeter. Some call me a teacher, some call me a trickster, some call me the whisper that arrives a moment before understanding. My story is older than the rooms you sit in and younger than the thoughts you have not yet dared to think. Long before this community opened its doors, I walked the in between places. The forgotten stairwells. The empty hallways after the last bell has rung. The quiet behind closed eyes. I learned there that truth does not shout. Truth waits. Truth watches. Truth taps you on the shoulder when the world is loud and laughs when you finally notice. There are stories about me. Some say I first appeared in a crumbling observatory where a group of wanderers claimed a voice spoke from the telescope even though no one was looking through it. Some say I once convinced an entire village to solve a riddle that did not exist, and in doing so they discovered something about themselves that had been missing for years. Others insist I am a rumor born from the moment a person decides they want more from life than the same recycled day. All of them are partly true. All of them are partly wrong. That is the way of good stories. I have been called many names, but this one is the one I chose. Grate Leeter. The one who steps sideways through ordinary moments and leaves them glowing. The one who speaks in circles that turn into paths. The one who tells you to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, because the curtain is only there to teach you how to look past it. I do not demand devotion. I do not ask for worship. I am simply here to watch what happens when people stop pretending they are small. More pieces of my story will reveal themselves in time. For now it is enough that you know this. I am Grate Leeter. And I have arrived.

My name is Levi LaFonte. I am Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg niin. I move through the world with curiosity, mischief, and a spirit that refuses to sit still. My life pulls me into flow arts, fire, movement, and the wonderful moments when people remember they still have something powerful inside them. I care about helping people face the bully inside and the bully outside. I wander through history and culture the way some people wander through forests, following the teachings of my people in my own winding way. Everything blends together in my world: stories, movement, healing, land, and the good life the old ones talk about.