taking risks

I’m not scared of spiders or tight spaces or heights. In the summers, when I was a high school teacher, I hang gutter with a friend of mine. I would routinely be leaning out over the edge of three-story buildings, balancing and long run of gutter with one hand and trying to screw it into the building with the other. Most of the things that people cite as their biggest fears, I just shrug off. My fears are much deep-seeded and sinister. They’re not the fears that keep you from riding a Ferris wheel. Or that send you frantically waving...