A Trilogy of Commonality for us all...Birth, Life, Death.

We are all climbers, and hence risk takers - we inherently believe that only with great risk can come great reward. It is not in our nature to "play it safe". We don't go sport climbing and clip bolts, instead we climb cracks or big walls or ice or mountains - sometimes even solo - simply because it is harder, and hence the reward may be greater.

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where is your brightened play of eyes
the fire flashing
the heartening story
of your wistful wide-open light...
now there's a fallen look
cast all round you
you're somehow smaller
as if you were merely
drawing out your life

how on earth
did you come to wander
out from the way you followed
to somewhere that you would never
go to knowingly...
take these words now
use them for you
to follow to draw you back
to your light.

come back
to that calling smile so familiar,
spell out the story of
heartening reassurance
to me once again

I don't know if this describes all of us, but it does me. The best way to motivate me to try something is to tell me how difficult it is. Still, I find something about this behavior paradoxical, because I have the greatest difficulty declining a challenge.

and tempura prawns.