He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever;…”

“I'm Chip Martin," he announced in a deep voice, the voice of a radio deejay. Be…”

“And for those two minutes we just stared at each other, and I watched the blue …”

“So we all matter- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”