How to Build a Bridge of Umbrellas:

Jean Shin, Penumbra

I. A stampede is an act of mass impulse among herd animals or a crowd of people in which the herd, or crowd, collectively begins running with no clear direction or purpose. Stampedes are believed to originate from biological responses in the brains and endocrine systems of herd animals. 

II. Stampedes and riots, Black Friday tramplings, Adah sticking her elbows out to float, being  carried on the backs of strangers, to avoid being trampled, heels stuck in sidewalk cracks.

III. You know when it rains in the city, you don't even need an umbrella? You can stay dry walking underneath the bridge of umbrellas formed by everyone else. 

IV. Weaving in and between people makes me miss driving my little red car so badly that I dream of car crashes over and over, slowly rolling backwards down a mountain into my neighbor's backyard. 

V. This is me sticking out my-metaphorical-elbows.