How To Fly

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Shortly after I got married, I ended up babysitting my nephew who was then two and a half or so.  It went okay, until I decided to show him a Dumbo cartoon.

He really, really, really liked the elephant flying. And when the elephant landed, he started screaming and crying “Elephant fly. Elephant fly.”

He was pretty disappointed when I couldn’t make the elephant fly.

What I was talking about: when your imagined future is suddenly yanked away, by changes in your industry, or illness, or a move is much like what...