the world has turned and left me here

for everyone who has asked me "what was it like?"

“Jack, you’ve never seen a large animal in the wild. The sight of this [grizzly bear] is so electrifyingly strange that it gives you a renewed sense of yourself, a fresh awareness of the self—the self in terms of a unique and horrific situation. You see yourself in a new and intense way. You rediscover yourself. You are lit up for your own imminent dism…