You don’t get those moments by being a hero.

You get them by showing up in the same kitchen every single morning until the showing-up becomes something a child can lean their whole weight against.

Chapter 12 — Dad

Three years later, there is a play structure in my backyard that took me three weekends and most of a lumberyard to build — double slides, a climbing wall, a tire swing turning slow in the shade.

On any given afternoon the noise back there is tremendous.