A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Content Warning: This section includes discussion of suicidal ideation, illness, and death.

Miller discussed meeting his father with a friend and mentioned his desire to start a national mentoring organization through local churches. His friend suggested that an investor from Portland named Duncan Campbell could help. Miller met with Duncan and talked about his reconnection with his father. He explained that growing up, he had mentors, especially from the church, who helped him get along without a father. Duncan said he also grew up without a father in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland. As a kid, he did not have an adult to guide him. He started a mentoring program to help elementary school children and ensure that as many graduate from high school as possible. Duncan inspired Miller and supported his mentoring program with a $25,000 check—the first donation to Miller’s Mentoring Project, an organization that helps kids in Portland. Miller felt that, with the birth of the Mentoring Project, he had begun his own “epic story.” Despite being stressful, he felt his life was no longer meaningless.