What if fairness isn't about effort-but about conditions?

In a world that loves to believe in equality, The Glow and the Rain looks at what truly shapes it: privilege.
Through poetic reflection and accessible clarity, Cliff Hoffmann explores how advantage and disadvantage weave through our everyday lives-who moves through glow, who stands in rain, and how both can exist within the same person.

From race to gender, queerness to class, disability to neurodivergence, faith to language-each chapter opens a new perspective on what it means to belong, to be heard, to be seen.
With the tenderness of a storyteller and the precision of a mirror, Cliff invites readers to recognize their own place within this landscape-not with guilt, but with awareness and responsibility.

Rooted in empathy, activism, and lived experience, The Glow and the Rain challenges readers to unlearn what they thought fairness meant-and to begin using their own glow to make the world brighter for others.

Because privilege is not destiny.
It's responsibility.