Time To Touch The Floor Again

Who could have known that life was as brief as a breath?  Or as strong as a gall force wind?

But we have tasted its soft passing, and are no longer on our feet!   ~ BH

It seems reasonable that life should have plenty of "WOWS!"  At the very least, a few "Wows!" every day if at all possible.  As a distant friend says, and I paraphrase, "One 'Wow!' make the rest icing on the cake."  The unpredictability of distance running accommodates this very well.  When we run to combine our own humanity, and the passion of our life; past present & future; there are very few distance runs which do not leave the soul with a "Wow!" -- if our eyes are open!  It is the "Wows" in life which take you off your feet!

I will try to share a brief of what can often be expected when you become a land runner... in many other regards, become an ultra distance runner at heart if not always in distance!  The expression of distance running has always been about the combination of our own humanity... our design as endurance creatures if you will.  We have always been this... Nomadic... travelers on foot... "Wow" seekers after little and big adventures.  Holistic wellness in many aspects demands the "Wows!".  This year land-running, I have had more 'Wows!' than runs with generous gatherings of items such as in the image above... "WOW!" 

I thought it might serve well to briefly describe the beautiful curiosity... The American Indian would have made any renaissance rock sculpture proud!  In and across the land I have been running, there are ancient treasures.  It seems endless "Wow!" moments reserved for the resilient, dedicated heart.  Little and large, multi-stone sculptures which do not perish and neither fade away!  My, my, MY!

When you cross their path, you cross the distance of millennials... in brief, the pieces above date approximately 6000BC - 1000BC... WOW!  Each one carried a healthy dose of honor and a beautiful charge of a connected life when it presented itself before me.  What I find I save from the crush of the plow, and preserve the posterity of their memory.  Little stone sculptures, otherwise known as "arrowheads"... the ONLY trace of a collected and beautiful race so far before us!  Wow!  Cheers all! 

 

Prospects of LIFE

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

~ H.D. Thoreau

The holistic distance runner looks for new prospects every day.  Prospects of life in prospects of running... "rather something to be."  LIFE is here for us.  It seems to me that every day should be a vibrant tracing out of the vision we have for the expression of our life.  Here-in is the pause... a question we must ask ourselves... "How can I obtain and secure a vision which is who I am in order to pursue it?"

It is easier than many might think: Passionately seek, follow after and gather those things which interest you. Those things "closest to the bone"... work for them, and towards them, in study with the intention of a better humanity when you turn out.  The expression of YOU, within THIS pursuit, will be your visionary life!

The wonderful thing about distance running is that it allows the interests, the passions and the dearest things you know to melt together under the merits of effort and toil.  There... out in the air... we blend spirit, mind and body WITH these in the strength of a unified effort.  A new wine fermented with every effort! 

The established distance runner... prime from experience with themselves... has an avenue of inspiration which regularly restores their vision for life.  In these respects the indigenous... the nomadic... have had this avenue of vision far before us.  They have benefited from the expression of distance running as their travel was a result of the demand of their LIFE.  All that came with their efforts was accepted as natural... a by-product... just WHO they were/are.  Beautiful. 

Sometimes I wonder why modern man seems to think they NEED so much just to make their distance running a success?  We just need our own humanity.  Cheers, HD Runners!