The culture glorifies grand legacies — the founder, the inventor, the leader whose name persists in buildings — and systematically undervalues the ordinary legacies that are no less real. The parent who raised generous children, the teacher who changed the direction of a hundred lives, the neighbor whose steadiness held a community together: these legacies are not small. They are only unmeasured, which is not the same thing.
Each step builds on the last.