09/02/2026
Wednesday With Wyatt 🦙
The shirts. These were Wyatt’s second Love Theory act, going from an idea discussed among friends in our den to something in action! His first was carrying Scout, the stuffed llama, on his backpack to school every day as a conversation starter with classmates.
Often, as we build relationships with new schools through the Success Bell program, they don’t know this part of the story like so many of you who’ve been with us for a while. That is, until we show up for a bell drop-off sporting some Love Theory swag. And that’s great, because it gives Christy and me a chance to tell the story of how those first two shirts Wyatt released, Love Theory with the smiley face in scripture on the back, and Sit and Listen, became his outspoken message to the world. He pushed, pestered, and begged until his big brother Winston, who was running a small t-shirt operation, finally caved and agreed to partner, calling it Bro Co. And there it was in print, not just an idea any longer.
We recently found the exact number of sales from that collaboration: 17 total shirts and sweatshirts. Wyatt could not have been more excited. Excited because it wasn’t about shirt sales or money to him; it was something more meaningful. How do we know? Because after Wyatt died, we found the check his brother cut him for his part of the sales, still folded and uncashed, in his wallet. It was more than a shirt to Wyatt, and it will always be more to us as well.
Currently, shirt sales do fund a major portion of the work we do at Love Theory, but continuing to get the message out to students and teachers that they are seen and matter means more to us, just like it did to Wyatt.
That will always be core to the mission of Love Theory.
BTW: If you happen to have purchased one of those first 17 shirts that Wyatt released, please let us know.
Love yourself and be brave - Ty