Up the Golden Stair Author:Elizabeth Yates Here, with the warmth of a letter to a friend, Elizabeth Yates gives her own thoughts on how to have the courage to face the greatest of all bereavements--the death of someone loved. — She says: — "No matter how brave we think we are, or think we can be, we must call sorrow by its right name and see it for what it is. Only then can we avail ourse... more »lves of the treasure that is hidden in the folds of its dark cloak. I think that we should no, by any twist of the words we use, minimize what we are going through, where death enters upon life and removes a member of our circle, family-close or friendship-wide. There will be time enough to ponder the event, to philosophize about it, to discover its significance. Now, the bleak fact stands: a light has gone out; wherever it may be shining, it is here no longer."« less