How to Embrace Loneliness, Enjoy Solitude, and Build Community

It squeezes me like it’s trying to make a point.  My chest tightens, and a vortex between my lungs twists my insides like a blanket, knotting inward, slouching my shoulders, and constraining my limbs to a point of heaviness.  Outside is a foreign country, with stone chapels and high cathedrals, white washed alleyways and cobble …