Another memorable moment occurred when another inmate, a man in his early 30s, walked up to me near the end of the event and said, “You made my mom smile today. She’s had some hard days and arrived with a heaviness and worry about certain things. You joked with her and teased her, and she eventually smiled. I needed to see her smile. Thank you.”
Now, I’ll pause here: Who can you help find their smile?
Let’s see, I’ll share one more moment with you. A man, yes, another inmate who wasn’t meeting with family per se, but instead, he was a part of the group of inmates who helped with our event, from pouring drinks to serving food to getting a chair to picking up trash to showing someone where to find a snack to selecting a board game. This man walked before me early in the morning, and his smile stretched across Texas.
