Sometimes we fall in love with the stories we tell, and it can be hard to let them go. Sometimes, we get asked to set a story free to be told by someone else, someone with greater authority to tell it.

In the Dr. Seuss tale, Horton the elephant agrees to sit on an egg so that Maisy the bird can take a break. A task that proves to be harder than Horton anticipated. But he sticks with it because he said he would. Horton knew that keeping that egg warm was important, as was keeping faith and honoring his own integrity.