Step out of a modern car, and you realize how much of the world has been filtered out. The climate control hums at a steady seventy degrees, the active suspension absorbs the potho

We often picture a survivor in broad, cinematic strokes: the person pulled from the wreckage, the patient declared cancer-free, the individual who escaped an abusive relationship.

There is a quiet moment, usually late in the evening or early before the alarm sounds, when the mind drifts backward. We don’t think about next Tuesday’s meeting or the grocery lis