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52 I CHAPTER THREE

What happens when you flip the hourglass? Either way you flip it,
you have the poor feeding the rich or the rich feeding the poor. It's
either one or the other. I don't like that visual because it reminds me
of the Old World and aristocratic waysthat America revolted against.
Are we headed back that way? Were the colonists just a bunch of
misguided idealists to begin with?
I've been reading some newspapers while enjoying some travel
time, but there were some stories in The Wall Street Journal that
got me to thinking about risk. Just yesterday we heard about three
climbers dying on their way down from Mt. Everest, evidently from
exhaustion, after they had reached their goal. Today we have an
article about the great racehorse, Barbaro, and his terrible injury,
and we have the tragedy in the Volvo Ocean Race, where a young
Dutchman was washed overboard from a yacht. Then, the crew of
another yacht had to abandon ship in an incredible storm, and they
were rescued by the yacht that had lost one of its crew. These are
all experienced yachtsmen, and their seamanship was not in
question. And with Barbaro, tens of thousandsof people went to see
horse-racing history being made and instead saw the horse break
down during the race, an unbelievable tragedy that no one is likely
to forget. Fans had reason to believe they would see a Triple Crown
winner - a horse winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the
Belmont Stakes - for the first time since 1978. The Wall Street
Journal writer said the grief of the
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crowd wasequal to their initial hope and
expectation. There are no
Expectations can lead to surprising
guarantees, but being
outcomes. There is often a fine line
ready sure beats
between victory and defeat, and it
makes me become philosophical in being taken
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thinking about it. Sometimes the best- by surprise.A
laid plans can just blow up in our faces
- Donald /. Trump
due to uncontrollable events, such as

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