Dear Editor:

I dedicate this to my granddaughter, Lillie Marie Kirk, from Nana Lynn.

Learn the alchemy, true human beings know

The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given; the door will open.

Welcome difficulty or failure, it builds character as a familiar comrade.

Joke with torment however presented.

What does it help to show you resent it?

That undressing and the nakedness underneath,

Is the sweetness of coming to the other side of grief.

Sincerely,
Linda McGuire
Grove City, Ohio