ASSESSMENT OF RISK
| Yes, I am traveling alone and I know that worries some of you a bit or a lot. It should. But first let me explain to you my perspective on risk: I'll think of you in your locked house at night. Is there a gun under your bed? I've a knife under my pillow. Will the Psycho, the drug crazed lunatic, someone break into your house as you sleep? Will the hungry and bold bear visit me in my slumber? Where will the next traffic accident be? Whose fault? Where will lightning strike next? Who's next to "go postal?" Where will the next rock fall, the next avalanche break loose? How much smoke, how many chemicals does it take to kill a man? Who's gonna help me if I break my ankle, my leg, or pick me up after I fall? |
| Every step is my meditation. My assets are common sense, experience, and intuition. I am out here without my lawyer. If something goes wrong, I have no one to blame. Perhaps myself, or Mother Nature, but my salvation is that I may go on to something else; that there is a plan. I need not fear, just as the masses fear not traveling at 80 miles per hour in their SUV's in rush hour traffic on their cell phones or whatever. I choose to take my chances with the weather, the rocks, the rivers, and the wildlife. If something happens to me it was meant to be. |