The Pleasure and Pain of Imagining Life on the Outside

By Ryan M. Moser — FROM THE INSIDE

The sound of comfort is a Pratt and Whitney engine on a Southwest 747, its turbine spinning in the sheer wind at 1,500 feet as the airplane descends into Miami International Airport after a layover in LAX from Seoul, Korea. The clouds part as each fifty-foot wing tears the haze, separating the ground from sky, dividing the visions and…