“Being safe,” he explained to me, “requires eliminating all the potential for risk.” Being safe requires keeping your eye always on task; it requires you to think ahead and be organized and pay attention to where all of your tools are, because when you are a thousand feet in the air on a cell phone tower and your hammer is falling to the ground, well, that’s no good. People die because of that, he said. Dad taught men how to see the bad things before they happened: To look at a table and see the four sharp corners that any small child could run into. To look out at the deck and see the nail
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