Face Your Fears
What are you scared of? One is tempted to chuckle and joke about haunted houses and ghosts and dark alleys when asked that question. But being lost on a remote trail or broken down on a deserted road can bring about entirely new fears...being injured and alone or of not finding your way out; perhaps even the thought of possibly dying. Whether it's confronting tight spaces, heights, getting up on stage, spiders, deep water, or any of a number of other things, the question of what it is that frightens you could go on and on. For me it is the thought of deep ocean water, or any body of unknown water. I can admire it to no end: from a cliff, from a ship's railing, from a bridge or pier, sometimes even swimming in it; but the thought of diving freely into it and feeling carefree and at peace is indeed just that, a distant almost never-to-be-explored thought. Not so for Roger Deakin who wrote: The uncomfortable pebble beach shelves steeply, and I was glad to subsid