The 19th-century poet Ralph Waldo Emerson got it right: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” But, as we all know, such words sometimes make simple what is actually far more complicated. Being truly unique and sustaining that can be a chronic challenge, especially when the world’s voices shout for you to move in a different, more compliant direction. Going against the tide takes courage, as we hear from eighteen-year-old Grace Miner.
Grace Miner is about to enter her senior year at East Greenwich High School.
