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From Edith Wharton's book, The Long Run: "One way to determine if risk is worth taking is NOT to take it and then see what one becomes in the long run."

I like that quote a lot. Edith Wharton was ahead of her time. Here is another of her observations on life: "Weak minded people should not engage in folly but often, strong people should always."

I live in Silicon Valley (Saratoga) California and have a second house in Bogotá, Colombia. for 30 years I have dealt in emeralds from Colombia. When asked, on Twitter, to describe myself in 25 words or less I wrote, "A striving and scholarly emerald dealer; a gentleman adventurer and armchair philosopher, often perplexed."