FEARS OR THE HIGH GROUND?
FEAR VS THE HIGH GROUND (For the local Newspaper) Once while walking across the bridge over the Yukon River in Whitehorse, when I was smack in the very center of the bridge, everything began to shake. It was an earthquake. The shaking hit so quickly that running seemed futile, let alone extremely difficult. The dam is only about four kilometers upstream from the bridge and the thought came to me, "Man, am I ever in a bad place if everything collapses!" Our world appears to be teetering on the brink of political, social, economic, and even ecological catastrophe on a global scale. The likelihood of any of them triggering desperation and panic is a serious possibility. The pandemic gave us a glimpse of the gravity of the possible fallouts. The thing about fears is that they can produce in us a side that we did not know or even believe exists. The drive for self-preservation can be so stron