Senior Moments: Pausing for a security check on the way to my safe place

I’m grateful for the security guards but I never get used to them.

I walk toward the entrance of The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, the synagogue where I have worshiped for more than 40 years. The place where my daughter attended Hebrew School and became a Bat Mitzvah. The place where I had my adult Bat Mitzvah. And the place where my late husband stood before the congregation three weeks before his death and thanked them for being his extended family.

The people in that family are my family.