Robin’s smile is important to me. It focuses me, and reminds me of the purity and innocence and color and light and love and hope of the world. There are any things to worry about in life, and many to celebrate. To some extent, we have a choice about how we feel, to some extent we don’t.

Robin’s smile is a choice, and a push for me to be hopeful, to act justly and love mercy, to walk humbly… She has every right to enter a just and compassionate world, and it is my job to help make that be true for her. I am hopeful and excited, for day, and every day I have left on the earth.