Category: Risk

Managing Failure

Life is about managing our failings, our mistakes, our shortcomings. We don’t get a perfect set-up. Our bodies are not flawless; our abilities are always

Hard & Scary

Life’s hard, and scary … And amazing, delightful, and reassuring to realize that we can deal with hard and scary. Everyday.  Sometimes better … Sometimes

Easy to Say “Yes”

Too often shyness overwhelms, squelching the action that could lead to something good.  Too often, a lack of confidence overtakes us, holds us back from

Maybe

“Gramps, I said maybe I would go out and play in the snow. Maybe,” said my grandson. The icicles had melted and the snow was following suit. How

Live Desperately

You feel tired, or lazy, like another hour in bed would be nice, like getting in gear would be more effort than would be comfortable

Finding Your Limits

One has to be willing to be thrown out. Tossed out, ejected, bucked off, asked to leave, forced to alter directions. How else does one

Getting Silly Old

In truth, I am getting old. But I don’t have to act like it! As children, we were told to act more mature than our

Redline

Sometimes you’ve got to push it. Send the revs high, RPM closing in on redline. Not to stay there; your energy couldn’t sustain that maximum

Devil May Care

You’re down.  Besieged by other people, by overwhelming events. You feel low, hardly worthy of more than feeble resistance. It happens. How do we lift ourselves to