I recently returned from two demanding months of service/volunteer work with asylum seekers in San Antonio, TX. Phil and I arrived home the day before the national State of Emergency for the coronavirus. It’s been an abrupt change of pace, a kind of screeching to a halt of life as I know it but perhaps because I was not teaching this semester, it’s becoming a welcome time of healing and renewal.
I decided to retire last May because I yearn for a more mindful way of being, a pace that allows me to take in each moment, each meal, each...