“Your star was getting dim today.”

“I’m sorry, Dad,” Benton answered. “He just made me so angry.”

“I know. Here’s something I’ve learned: Do something nice for someone who doesn’t like you. They’ll see you differently, and be nicer to you.”

“That’ll be hard.”

“But worth it. You’ll shine again.”

Surprised to find himself on a Kansas farm in 1951, Herrmann is still trying to make sense of it, but in that time he’s fallen in love with the vast sky, wind waving grass, moonlight, and the shade of trees. He tries to write about some of these.