In the years to come, the tomato plant would be gone, the bakery under their window might change hands, and projects would evolve. But 2018 stayed with Isla as the year she learned how to steward abundance: not by hoarding, but by sharing, by asking for help, and by measuring wealth in relationships and purpose. At twenty-one, married and quietly ambitious, she had discovered that a plentiful life was less a destination than a practice—one they tended together, season after season.