If we accept support, it must go through the same public process as any other contribution.”

“I thought anonymity would keep me from interfering.”

“Anonymity wouldn’t prevent you from believing you rescued it.”

That stung because it was true.

I offered instead to review the program’s lease terms as a volunteer with no decision-making authority.

Hannah said the board would consider that, along with offers from others.

For the first time in my business life I waited to be selected for a task that carried no prestige.

At our next visit, Rose asked me to read a picture book about a fox who gets lost.