I have a big, old lab mix who has annoyed me his whole life. Three other families had returned him, but I couldn’t do that to him. Fortunately K.T. Landon’s poem “Devotion” [September 2022] about her dog has helped me appreciate mine. I did grudge the “tedium of his needs,” as Landon writes. But now I see his adoration and realize I still have time to return his love. I am grateful to Landon for capturing the beauty that exists in every being.