Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.