The Body I’m on a flight coming back from Costa Rica and just finished Ta-Nahesi Coates’ Between the World and Me. And the day prior to leaving I turned in an application for a Masters program, not realizing how deeply one strand of my essay echoed the contents of this letter. The body, its power, its vulnerability—it is the vessel which is all-encompassing. In Costa Rica the body longs for the raw elements—the water, the salt, the sun, the wily air, exhaustion, green, dust a