Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom

Perhaps it is about pride, which is something you must respect, especially in a foreign country, because you won’t always understand it, and there were many times in Haiti I did not.

day. It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

“Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something

Everything in this world is music if you can hear it. Make a joyful noise, the psalm says.

One of the best things a child can do for an adult is to draw them down, closer to the ground, for clearer reception to the voices of the earth.

Look. It’s one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don’t really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look