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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

I CANNAE GIVE HER ANY MORE CAPTAIN!

You must not mind a certain coolness from him

Ground control to Major Tom. South Arm Peninsula. August 2013. We're sending poems to outer space. Let's see if the aliens like them. Directive , Robert Frost Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather, There is a house that is no more a house Upon a farm that is no more a farm And in a town that is no more a town. The road there, if you'll let a guide direct you Who only has at heart your getting lost, May seem as if it should have been a quarry— Great monolithic knees the former town Long since gave up pretense of keeping covered. And there's a story in a book about it: Besides the wear of iron wagon wheels The ledges show lines ruled southeast-northwest, The chisel work of an enormous Glacier That braced his feet against the Arctic Pole. You must not mind a certain coolness from him Still said to haunt this side of...