Asked at the 1980 Virginia Shrine Mont CFO how she first came into CFO, Ruth Robison goes back to the warm egg her mother let her hold to her ear until it peeped. From it she learned to listen for the stirrings of life. She traces the rest of the road through her long illness, Agnes Sanford’s prayer, and Glenn Clark asking her, “Do you think it’s fair to judge a speaker by one talk?”