This book made me feel exactly the way I felt as a child when someone first told me, on some late starry night, that every star I was looking at was just a ball of fire, and all of it had come from some mysterious quantum fluctuation called the Big Bang. It’s beautiful, it’s simple, and it’s as close to a miracle as you’re likely to get.
Most landlords would evict someone whose apartment regularly has to be deep-cleaned due to pigeon droppings and peck marks. Most landlords — but not the Downtown Emergency Service Center, one of Seattle’s leading homelessness service providers.