Buttons — A Story from a Son, to a Mother

It was a typical school day. Ben sat at his desk, desperate for a distraction. He peered out the second floor window, disappointed to see only a bare tree and a light flurry of snow falling around it. There were no birds, no squirrels, and no people moving about anywhere that he could observe to pass the time. Instead, he could only watch the snow falling outside of that window. His high school was small compared to…