Today, Amber Alerts quickly inform us of missing and/or kidnapped children. Details of the life of a child; life observed by neighbors and teachers, is critical to understanding why and how children go missing. Comfort Stew speaks to a community’s internal struggle to address circumstances and consequences critical to parenting. Angela Jackson says, “Comfort Stew is a meditation on motherhood and what it means to love. It is a call to community to renew its vows to the ancestors and to children so that no child is ever truly lost.”