Upside Down - Is there any upside to the downside? "Education is a refuge in adversity" ~ Aristotle About five years ago, I had a relatively bad cycling accident, where an elderly driver made a wider-than-they-should’ve turn into a parking lot, leaving me nowhere to go but straight into (and onto, and over) their vehicle. The moment my body slammed into the ground I could sense the damage that had been done, and over the next many months, I lived through excessive back pain.