Our grocery program served homebound seniors across several neighborhoods.

Maya, now a grown woman with a family and career of her own, helped oversee the operation.

A team of volunteers did the work I once did alone, and most of them had never met Arthur.

That used to trouble me.

I worried that as the years passed, his name would become nothing more than a brass plaque on a door.

Then a young volunteer asked me one morning why the program existed, and I told her the story of a man who invited a neighbor in for coffee.