He Who Sees a Need

Dante Alighieri, poet

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

-Dante Alighieri, poet

Two examples:

1. Earlier this summer, in Milwaukee, on the way to my brother’s bachelor party, two cars collided in the middle of a four-way intersection ten feet from where Julia, my sister Amber, and I were walking. My sister, an EMT and firefighte…