That Queasy Feeling

How to transcend both denial and distraction when the world seems to be coming apart

Fires near Sheffield, today. Photo by Christopher Furlong, Getty Images.

You know that moment when you realize you’re seriously sick, or that your relationship is going to end, or you’ve lost your job, or you realize that you’re about to crash the car? It’s not panic, so much as the queasiness of realization. Like when you see the police lights in the rearview…