Text Only

Has anything in your life or experience prepared you for a time like this? If so, tell us about it.

The experience that most comes to mind is my time in the Peace Corps when I lived in the mountains with a very basic life. I walked everywhere and there was not much else to do-- no restaurants, etc. I got used to spending time on my own, enjoying my own company and living a simple life. Life was precarious there so I also learned to rely on my neighbors and community. During that time I felt connected to larger processes of the world and nature-- lived through a hurricane among other things, and recognized how little we can control. A lot of that experience reminds me of these times we are living in right now. I'm definitely better able to cope because of having been in the Peace Corps.