Flagging Fear

Over the years I’ve learned to run toward foreboding feelings when I identify them.

I’ve consistently found value in noting and confronting things that scare me; small things, substantial things, dangerous things at times.

Much of this value is derived from the process of picking at the aversion or worry and slowly coming to know it: understanding its origins, what it is I find so disconcerting about it, and in some cases finding I’m actually afraid of something else and have for whatever ...