Letters from the Heart

We meet many people in life who touch our hearts—but never know how deeply. This is just a sample of 5 Letters from the Heart which was a newspaper column in the 1990s. It is to people who touched me deeply, so they will know how much I appreciated each of them. There are more letters written than those collected here, so if you feel left out, know there is a letter waiting for you somewhere.

Table of Contents

Giving Diamonds

To My Father, For All Your Help And Love

To My Mother, For Her Compassion

To My Father’s Father

To My Younger Sister

© David Adelson. All rights reserved. These "Letters from the Heart" were previously published as a column in the Quincy Herald-Whig in Illinois in the 1990's, except Chasing the Train, which was published around the same time in the Iowa Source, Fairfield, Iowa.