Wisdom and Grace: In reading 2020: Eyam, England

I’ve got to admit for a people person like myself, self-distancing has been a challenge. Living three-and-a half miles from the nearest neighbor helps. I’ve done a lot of sewing projects and cleaned out areas that were long past due.

My mind has gone back to some thoughts about self-isolation in history. The first is 1918 and the Spanish Flu Epidemic that WWI soldiers returned home from Europe with. In reading “In Years Gone By” about homestead families in the Simpson and Cottonwood areas and “Always the Wind” about homestead families in the St. Joe area, it becomes very evident that death was...