Retiring Retirement
A senior refined: Part 2 In Part I of this column, which ran in the March issue of Senior Spotlight, we learned that 66-year-old Fred Sumter’s background prepared him for the harsh realities that he faces in the eyes of angry and hurt young men at the New York State detention center, where he works as a Youth Development aide.
serves to elevate his expectancy for his retirement years.
stand from the comfort of their living rooms watching on flat screens the suffering of these “I’m looking ahead,” he lands,” he said. “It’s when you says. “I have more years behind me than ahead have your boots on the ground that you see the stark difference of me, so I don’t by have time to look between American society and no running water.” what I haven’t achieved. God Working within the correchas given me tional system has only reinhealth, resources, forced his desire to serve as a relationships and senior. experiences that can “The difference between fullpropel me toward the future, to do God’s will and to time work and retirement is the efinement.” It luxury of zeroing in on helping can come have a quality of life physion my terms both in task and with age. cally.” time,” he said. A good part of what speeds The compassion him past a retirement of leisure Robert J. LaCosta writes a and skill set that Fred Sumter is his experience from the mili- daily blog. Write him at norepcarried into detention work tary and mission trips. com@gmail.com or call (518) for the past two decades have 435-1250. distilled into a clarity that only “People can’t fully under-
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Working within the correctional system has only reinforced Fred Sumter’s desire to continue serving people as a senior.
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