We scatter these moments without weighing them, and some fall on stone and are gone, and some fall into a hungry child and become the load-bearing wall of a life.

You cannot tell, at the time, which is which.

You can only keep scattering, and hope.

Chapter 6 — Believe Kindness Exists

Harrison told me, sitting there, what had become of the hungry boy from Franklin Elementary.

He had been adopted, not long after that year, by people who loved him, and his life had turned.

He had studied, and worked, and become a doctor.

From medicine he had moved into the administration of hospitals, and from there he had built, over decades, a healthcare network of his own — and he now owned four hospitals across the Pacific Northwest.