This delightful little story highlights human connection in ways we seem to have largely misplaced. Yes, there are those wonderful neighborhood “libraries” constructed or from repurposed newspaper vending machines and a few other notable efforts. It’s a strong counterpoint and maybe antidote to the guy with the AR15 in Texas who killed a family because they complained his shooting was scaring their month-old baby. Or the guy in the Northeast who killed a young woman while shooting at a car that wrongly turned in his driveway or the guy in the Midwest who shot a young man for knocking on his door, mistaking that home for a place he was to pick up his younger siblings. These incidents cover allages and economics and races. They are all senseless. We have it in us to do better. This story proves it.
