Chapter 9 "Risk" features Shackleton's epic sailing adventure from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island, some 1400 kilometers in a tiny, open boat across the most dangerous (and cold) seas in the world. It is very difficult for us to imagine the difficulty, danger, and misery of such a journey. Because of this, I found this chapter a little difficult to relate to my own life, especially as I have never had to take a huge "necessary" risk such as he took. I have, however, taken many, many risks: as a climber, as a kayaker and rafter, as a driver, as a traveler. But the risks have always been of my own choosing, and many of them were careless, thoughtless risks, and it has been only because I have enjoyed a certain amount of luck that I have survived.
I am thinking of a time in which I took a big risk that wasn't absolutely necessary, but it was for the benefit of others. When I have an extra moment I will share this with you on this blog, or I will just tell it in class.
Welcome message
Welcome to LILTDY blogging.
Each of you needs to go to Blogger and create your own blog for this course. Call your blog anything you like, but be sure to include your name in the title so we know who you are. Also, be sure to send to me (krenochs@gmail.com) the url so I can post the links to your blogs and we can read and respond to each others blogs.
Each week you will have one assigned writing task related to our text, Leading at the Edge. These entries should be between 150 and 300 words.
But you can also make additional entries, and/or add links to anything that you find interesting and related to our class.
I’ll try to make my blog a good model of what is possible. To help you feel like we are all doing this together, I will do the same assignments as you.
I look forward to blogging with you.
Ken
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