Lets you know you are alive though. I'd hate to live a totally risk free existence. golfing is relatively safe and I'd rather take a beating than play a round. I like to go fishing in the ocean...that kills people too. So does driving fast. Skiing, motorcycling, hunting, hiking, boating. Come to think of it there are not many non-risky behaviors that I consider "fun". They may be satisfying...but not fun. Risk and fun seem to be intertwined in some primal way. At least in my peculiar wiring.
I know all the nervous Nellie control freaks want to make the world safe from itself.....but
I think I'll go raise a glass to those who have gone in the pursuit of fun. There are far worse ways to go, and far worse things to give ones life for.
Monty
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Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:36 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mike Wills
It is always a gut wrenching thing when we loose one of our own.
There but by the grace of God go I..
This game we play at is terribly unforgiving of any oversight.
On Saturday we lost two of our own community here in Portland.
Michael in Maine
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Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:57 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mike Wills
Sorry to report that we lost a fine friend and fellow rotor-head yesterday.
Mike Wills was doing what he loved (flying, this time in a glider) when apparently he ran out of thermal lift and couldn't find more before having to make an off field landing. Very few facts in yet but sounds like a wing clipped a tree before he went in. He will be missed.
Tracy