I Came Home From Teaching All Day to Find a Lock on My Own Pantry

in this house, something I should have known much earlier. True wealth is not what you own. It is what you refuse to let anyone take from you. Your peace. Your dignity. Your right to exist in your own life without apologizing for the space you occupy.

I got it back at sixty-seven years old.

It is never too late. Not for any of us.