While looking forward to the Tulip Time festival in Holland, Michigan (http://www.tuliptime.com/), I think of the National Cherry Blossom Festival (http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/) in Washington, D.C. My wife and I lived in Maryland and Washington, D.C. area for a few years.

Reading the following poem by Anaïs Nin, I feel that cherry blossom is really like a Risk Engineering project:

“Risk

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.”

Is cherry blossom a decison-making based on risk engineering?