This word, “thrown,” seems to me right now to express something I want to use in/as the title.

Most of all, thrown as in “radical thrownness,” from existential philosophy. The idea that we exist in a state of radical thrownness, not having chosen our specific time or circumstances of existence, and that we make our own existence by our choices–or in my case by further elements of “thrownness.” That is, the Accident ultimately threw me into a completely new existence, where, in a sense, I had to achieve just to justify being there/here at Penn. Thrown, very simply, by a car colliding with me.
Radical, also, as in an unusual life path, radical as in “root,” radical as in “netroot,” even radical as (somewhat) politically/religiously radical. Radical as in radical insight(s), though I may miss what those are, because they are so familiar to me.