Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. Rainer Maria Rilke   I love this quote. One, because it involves dragons, and two, because it’s thought-provoking. It’s a quote that makes sense on the surface and simultaneously perplexes me on a deeper level. It’s perplexing because I wonder about those deep-seated, dragon-like fears. Have I correctly identified those fears? Do I dare name those dragons?  It goes without saying that our fears change with the passage of time. Mine have, certainly. For 20+ years after leaving Africa, nightmares plagued me, and my greatest fear was returning to my troubled motherland. Before I completed my first novel, my greatest…