This Is Chance: The Story of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake and the Remarkable Woman Who Magnetized People into Falling Together as Their World Fell Apart

What is safety, anyway? How can you predict where or when tragedy will occur? You can only learn to live with it and make the best of it when it happens.

We might spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins, but we save them by experiencing ourselves our selves, each individual self as the still point of the turning world, to borrow T.S. Eliots lovely phrase from one of the greatest poems ever written. And yet that point is pinned to a figment our...