![]() ![]() “I was born with this disability and I was born into this body. “I’ve never lived a life without this level of discomfort or pain,” she explained. I related this story to philosophy professor, journalist, and Pulitzer-finalist Chloe Cooper Jones, whose recently released memoir Easy Beauty chronicles her lifetime of disabled travel, and I asked where she finds the wherewithal to push through the pain and hardship. My travels have been strained by chronic pain ever since, and they probably always will be. Once there I could barely get around the place, for with each step my ankle rattled and shifted like a sack of marbles. After it happened, rather than waiting some wise duration to properly heal, I skittered off on yet another bout of travel (apparently you can get itchy feet even if one of those feet is dangling at the end of a trimalleolar fracture) and limped with a too-heavy backpack to Bangkok. ![]() ![]() A few years back I suffered a silly accident that had decidedly unsilly consequences in the form of a severely broken ankle. ![]()
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