Finally, what is saved must be storied. Marshall Ganz’s framework of public narrative (2009) moves from a “story of self” to a “story of us” and a “story of now.” When a rescued life is retold as a community achievement—naming the helpers, the tools, the door that opened—other hands learn their part. Over time, the story revises what neighbors expect from one another: that we reach, call, carry, and return. In this way, lifting one name does not end with gratitude; it inaugurates a wider grammar of care. [...]
