I burned my favorite small saucepan and try as I might, I couldn’t scrub it off. My first thought was to discard the pot and buy another. Then I Googled how to clean a burned pan and saw I was doing it the hard way. I could simply boil water, vinegar and baking soda and it would lift right out.  How often do I try to do things the hard way? Learning that alchemy saved me a lot of physical labor. It’s also alchemy when we take a moment during an emotional flare up and decide to transform an irking thought into a better feeling thought. We’re all alchemists with the power to transform what we find around us into the heaven we want to live in. We all have the power and ability to take what we have and make it into what we want.