Photo Source: Unsplash The first jog in Jakarta begins quietly, as if the city has not yet remembered how large it is. I step out from the hostel in Cikini and onto a boulevard that seems too wide for the sleepy hour. It is only a little after five-thirty. Jakarta, they say, is one of the largest urban conglomerations on earth…a sprawling constellation of cities that have slowly grown into each other until it is hard to say where one neighborhood ends and another begins. Thirty million...

Photo Source: Pexels His text sound beeped, and he looked down at his phone. It was a message from his sponsor. There was a couple across town who had a donation for the Salvation Army. His sponsor asked if he had time. He did. These days he had plenty of time. Nick considered his recovery to have officially begun four months ago in February, but, in reality, it probably started earlier. Probably on Christmas morning when his wife had asked him to run down to the apartment storage unit in...