I am fortunate to live not more than a few blocks from Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center, a really nice complex for community and senior activities ranging from classes and sports to meal opportunities and group outings. At the end of 2023 I thought I would get back into shape with my sister and her husband by coming to the fitness center at this place, and within two months I had tweaked a knee and somehow agitated my left shoulder. I had had two stellar days of senior men’s open session basketball play before my body said nope, and I shut most activities down over there.

Today, in January of 2025, I finally made my way back to Domingo Baca and got my membership to the community center renewed. In a pleasant twist, my sister also came there this evening, so that while I took time to unwind walking boucoup laps around the second level track in the gym, my sister was hooping it up with some women on the court below.