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Born in Space
Les Paul Morgan smiling on the Moon, playing his Gibson Les Paul 25/50 Anniversary guitar. Earth hangs in the black sky over the Taurus-Littrow valley.

Les Paul Morgan

Born in Space

All of my life I have looked to the Heavens just like I was Born in Space.

Two-time ruptured brain aneurysm survivor. Radio host. Musician. Still here.

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They said I would not make it through the night.

A man standing on the lunar surface, seen from behind, playing guitar beneath a rising Earth.
Apollo 17. Taurus-Littrow. Guitar in my hands. That is where I go when I close my eyes.

I am Les Paul Morgan. North Augusta. Two ruptured brain aneurysms. A coma. Traumatic brain injury. I love dogs, I play guitar, and I adore my Megan.

1984. I was twenty-two, a senior operator at a factory in Aiken, motorcycle racer, athlete. Headaches now and then. I did not think much of them. Then, in that much time — snap — a pain like someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat. It felt like it had exploded.

When I woke from a twenty-four-hour coma I mumbled, I hear the song Yesterday playing. It was. In the hospital. My mother says music saved my life. I believe her.

They told me I would never work or function in society again. I waited seventeen years, then I went back. Radio. Music. Peer support. Sixteen years on the air. I work at Walton Options, which is a center for independent living for people with disabilities. Disability does not mean inability.

Short-term memory is tricky. Sometimes my tongue and my brain do not agree. I write things down. I smile at the small mistakes. I am still here.

  1. 1984First ruptured AVM. Twenty-two years old. A coma. They told my parents I would not make it through the night.
  2. 1994Second aneurysm. Concussions in the years between. Short-term memory took a hit. I kept going.
  3. 1999Co-founded CSRA Dream Catchers — a support group for brain injury, spinal cord injury, and anyone walking that road.
  4. On airOriginal host on Brain Injury Radio. Twelve years weekly. Dream Catchers, Empowerment Zone, and more — still on Spreaker.

Radio

Survivor-led. Survivor-run.

I was one of the original hosts on the Brain Injury Radio Network — on the team weekly for twelve years. Dream Catchers. Empowerment Zone. The largest support group on Earth, as we used to say, because it lived on the air.

  • Dream Catchers

    The flagship. Survivor stories, music, and a place to call in — hosted weekly for years on the Brain Injury Radio Network.

  • Empowerment Zone

    Disability rights are civil rights. Independent living, the ADA, and how we take charge of our own destinies.

  • Aneurysm Hour

    For people who have been through the rupture, the surgery, the long night — and for the families sitting beside them.

  • Disability Roundtable

    Advocates and educators from around the country. The Independent Living Movement. Nothing about us without us.

A vintage broadcast microphone in a dark studio, a window of stars behind it.
The old shows still live. Press play below and I am in the room with you.

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Dream Catchers, still on the air.

Dream Catchers. Empowerment Zone. Aneurysm Hour. Disability Roundtable. My shows. Hours of advocacy, music, and friends from the disability community. If the player is hard to use, the same shows are linked as plain text under it.

© 2026 Les Paul Morgan.

Space

All of my life I have looked to the Heavens.

NASA. SpaceX. Rocketry. Tesla. Flight. The last lunar landing — Apollo 17, Taurus-Littrow, at the base of those mountains. That is my cathedral. I named this house Born in Space because that is how the sky has always felt: like home.

A rocket climbing into a star-filled night, blue-white engine light over dark water.
A night launch — the machines that might take us back.
Earth rising over the gray cratered lunar horizon, a small blue marble in black sky.
Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968 — the blue marble that called us home.

I am a brain injury survivor who still believes we are going.

Music

Not just a cool guitar.

Yes, I was named after the man who built the log and taught the world to stack sound on sound. I play. I sing. After the coma I brought a karaoke machine to support groups because music had given my memory a way back — and it helped other people too.

Music lowers the volume on pain. It forges the memories that injury tries to take. It is therapy you can hum. If you have a brain injury, or love someone who does, put a song on. Start there.

Les Paul Morgan

Inclusive Space Art

A disability space-art wall that lives only here, under my name. Your picture. Your story. Your star.

Enter the sky
Stars connected like a map over a lunar horizon.

This house

Every disability is welcome.

I came through the door as a brain injury survivor. The house is for all of us. Nothing about us without us.

  • Blind and low vision
  • Deaf and hard of hearing
  • DeafBlind
  • Brain injury and stroke
  • Spinal cord and mobility
  • Speech
  • Learning and intellectual disability
  • Autism
  • Mental health
  • Chronic illness and pain
  • And anyone we have not named yet
How this house is built to be used