Fallen: a Trauma, a Marriage, And the Transformative Power of Music
“The side of a mountain shook loose and landed on the stretch of road their car zipped along.
“That was an accident,” Danny tells me. According to Danny, what happened to him—a missed landing in a bike jump—was not an accident. “It was stupid,” he says. “There was this moment and I should have pulled the front wheel up. I knew I should pull it up. But I didn’t. It’s my fault.”
I hear in his words that he lives this fraction of a second over and over again. In flight. Creating his own bre...eze in the hot blue air of a breathtakingly average summer day.
“Everyone freaked out when I landed,” he tells me. “Even though I couldn’t move, I had to talk them through calling my mom. Getting an ambulance.”
Over and over again. The inhale. The moment of suspension. The brief but glorious tricking of gravity. The slight shifts in body weight. Forward. Backward. The rubber of the front tire, touching down.MoreLess
“That was an accident,” Danny tells me. According to Danny, what happened to him—a missed landing in a bike jump—was not an accident. “It was stupid,” he says. “There was this moment and I should have pulled the front wheel up. I knew I should pull it up. But I didn’t. It’s my fault.”
I hear in his words that he lives this fraction of a second over and over again. In flight. Creating his own bre...eze in the hot blue air of a breathtakingly average summer day.
“Everyone freaked out when I landed,” he tells me. “Even though I couldn’t move, I had to talk them through calling my mom. Getting an ambulance.”
Over and over again. The inhale. The moment of suspension. The brief but glorious tricking of gravity. The slight shifts in body weight. Forward. Backward. The rubber of the front tire, touching down.MoreLess
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