An Everyday Mercy

The significance of a single loving act

Dog tied to table at coffee shop. (DALL-E re-creation of a real event.)

In the mid-2000’s I was living in Las Vegas and struggling to get a fledgling young company off the ground. I had recently met the former CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh. We had spent a lot of time hanging out in the previous weeks. (Our blown-up business deal was still a ways off.)

My lif…