A Year of Thinking Dangerously—Part 4 of 4

There can be a fine line between foolishness and fearlessness.  

You have to ask yourself, “Am I too far along in my life and career to take risks? Or am I too far along not to?

The road less traveled is paved with a shit ton of gear. Our director, Dean Del Calzo is likely getting ready to add another bag to the mix at the farmhouse in Bedoin last September.

I learned so much last year. Stuff like: 

I’ve never been happier than when I unearth archive footage of a mullet-haired, bolo-and-tuxedo-shirt-wearing Aussie bartender from 1988 that somehow fits perfectly into our cycling story.

And, I find equal joy in tracking down an obscure Italian rapper.

Plus, I’m undaunted by the prospect of contacting—in Italian, which I don’t write or speak—the library in the little town just north of Treviso to find a photo of a cycling team of which I do not know the name. 

They say that when you are in the middle of working on something, and it brings you joy, if it doesn’t even feel like work. You know you are doing what you should. 

And maybe that’s the simplest way to characterize what my dangerous year was all about. Our first big project, the short documentary, GRINTA!, is sweet and exciting and launching soon. 

Director of Photography, Brook Aitken, shooting in downtown Bedoin.

On Mont Ventoux with the inGAMBA crew.

As for everything else? A work in progress. Incomplete. That includes me. But I’m ok with it, because, as I said, I’m learning. 

And while I’m loath to give advice, if you were to ask me, I’d ask YOU… 

What's your Anything? 

Maybe it’s closer than you think. Maybe it starts like I did. 

Thinking a little dangerously.