"I just became a part-owner in a Cessna 182. When I was doing some touch-and-goes with one of the other owners, he kept saying I was landing crooked and the wheels shouldn't chirp so much on landing. But I was flying straight down the runway and the winds were light. I've flown...
My previous perspective came from a smug conceit, the view inside the hermetic bubble around my life as it used to be, pre-Cessna. I felt ashamed by what I was and freed by what I have become. In this moment, the map came alive with faces and places, made iridescent by the joy of...