In the world of nature, fall and winter are times of death. Green leaves burst into brilliant hues (at least in New England, where folks actually make vaca-tions here to drive around and look at foliage - seri-ously) before turning brown and falling off the branch.
Some people are naturally adventurous and some people are naturally timid. As we age and get older, tendencies become more and more ingrained. A natu-rally adventurous individual will look at life as finite and seeing the sands slipping out of the hourglass will seek to squeeze as much liv-ing as possible into what remains of their time on this earth. Timid people tend to become more timid as they age and eventually they rarely leave the house. They resign them-selves to becoming old and see noth-ing wrongwith “acting their age.” Meanwhile the adventurous oldsters are taking up rock climbing, skydiv-ing, learning how to ride a horse or seeing the world. One adventurous type is a soft spoken 58 year old named Jim DiGiovanni. Jim lives in suburban Kansas
