“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

4 December

We’re meant, courageously, to transcend fear, not wallow in it. To turn our backs on validated self-pity and, as the expression has it, to go where no man has gone before. Shrinking from that supreme adventure of necessity means I choose to live in a land delusion where I’m authorized - by me - to glory in scaling ten-foot mountains, where I fondly expect a trophy just for showing up.