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The Promise of a Pencil, If you can have anything in the world, what would…

- - - - Sam and Cornelio (from Mozambique)
        
        bringing immigrants into your family and granting them a personal place in your life is the most meaningful gift to give. Will this story have greater significance later on in the book? Will Sam and/or Cornelio come up again?
      - connection to a dark part of Jewish history which might lead to a stronger connection to faith
        
        "When your faith is tested you simply have to believe that there will be light ahead and continue moving forward."
  - - - left his native country to bring his family to the US
        
        I only recently had the opportunity to have a peek into my family's history. I haven't learned anything about being affected by the Holocaust but I know that somewhere on my Poppop's/(great) Aunt's line someone did come to the US. I can question this later.
- - - - I don't know if the connection makes sense but it feels like its worth it to note here: For my 18th birthday party I asked all my friends to donate to a list of selected organizations that had meaning to me. Just a few weeks before that my friend told me about his struggles with mental health and anxiety, which I was easily able to relate to considering I too have mental health struggles like his. I listed a trusted organization that gave the option to donate to either mental health or anxiety related funding. My friend handed me a card at my party. I opened it at home and read through all the sarcasm and meaningless jokes he scribbles all over the paper. Included in the scribbles was a short note that meant everything to me. He told me that he donated to the organization, which to me means more than the money. This is providing support so other people in the world who share the same struggles as me--and my friend--can get the help they need.