No surface mining allowed!

I really do not like dark places, I prefer to walk in illumination, upright, and free to find my way around by some other means than crawling through the muck, and having my miner’s light beam its narrow pathway into the darkness. But I have heard that there is company awaiting me, and nuggets of real value to be mined from behind this door. So I gather courage, and insist that it be friends with fear.

They shake hands, at first reluctantly, eye each other suspiciously, and then agree, in the interest of what is best for me, that they will lay aside their petty differences and go together into the mine.

So it is, with courage holding one hand, and fear sweatily squeezing the other, that I push open the door to a place of mystery, an underground bed of discovery.

It is odd that all of the world’s most precious and highly valued commodities come from beneath the earth: diamonds, rubies, emeralds,oil, coal, and oh,I almost forgot… taters. Perhaps, I shall emerge more valuable for this deep mining effort, or at least better prepared for what is next.

So I shut my eyes, inhale deeply, and give the door to the mine a hearty shove….. and step across the threshold that symbolizes my entrance into a world of wonder, and all the while courage is kissing fear, and I believe they will become very good friends indeed.

Frogita