a person can change and grow and improve himself and make something more of himself than he is. Micah didn’t always say it in so many words like he just had about reading and speaking. But being around him just made Jake feel like life was a good thing. It made him realize that there was always something more you could find if you looked for it and wanted to find it. Micah’s heart and brain were alive and awake with ideas and thoughts and possibilities and challenges. Slowly that awakeness of heart