I Learned the Lesson That Mattered

And it included a GPS

Photo by Nguyen Dang Hoang Nhu on Unsplash

When my father died three years ago, shortly before his ninety-ninth birthday, I received an unusual gift I would not otherwise possess. I had never seriously thought about death. After my father’s funeral, the thought played in my mind on repeat.

Once a seemingly infinite commodity, time began to take on a particular urgency. I became…