I have been thinking a lot about trauma. Recently it seems that we are all just jumping from one island of trauma to the next, resting every now and then in the cool peaceful channels and lagoons in between. Some of these traumas are vast, mountainous, and unfathomably painful, and some are small enough that we barely alight upon them, hardly remembering their coordinates. All of these masses shape our individual worlds. As we live our lives we make decisions about colonizati