Security

Is feeling secure a fallacy? A mirage? Right now, it feels impossible.

Security. It’s a word I used to associate with milestones—steady work, a paycheck, sobriety, a sense that if I just kept doing the next right thing, the ground would stop moving. But lately the ground seems committed to motion. Government agents are hurting people and detaining others. The headlines keep getting darker. Our systems remember too much—the pandemic years, the political turbulence, the uncertainty that taught us all to stay on high alert.