The Path of Moments

I go spinning down the funnel of my emotion seemingly too often.
However, this is not of surprise... for my humanity demands it.
When I do slide and rotate to the common bottom... somewhere... sometime...
Something/Someone gathers me together again.
I am there brought again back to the top.  Wherever this might be.
Sometimes instantly.
Life is A PATH OF MOMENTS like this... repeating itself in my emotion.

Holistic Distance Runner's!  After an exceptionally strange, but beautiful, recovery run today, I am confirmed again of the nobility and grace of our efforts.  I should think we all consider ourselves an experiment of one each time we head out -- for long distance running merits one of the most ardent efforts a person can undertake! 

Have you been here... Although I began the day with no expectations to run; refrained because of strange issues and sensitivities with regards to recovery; the path of moments opened the door for a heart felt run when the mid-day came.  I locked myself into the moment of a recovery run... observing every foot plant... and now on the other side of that universe -- it seems I have become another human being!  Better, more balanced... cured in motion.      

I am reminded of a quote by Mark Twain... "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."

I suppose sometimes I might wish that my emotion would ask my permission to entrance or exit!  Yet I know foolishness when it raises it head.  So indeed we runners run... holistically speaking, we cope. It is the fiber of the distance, the fusion of time and the energy of the effort which delivers us again to sanity.

Running distance might very well subconsciously teach me that it is not feasible to think that "mood' can be maintain as I desire it to be.  So I do see that time out in wildness does cool my soul... it does clarify my mind... and with force.  Force is what unruly emotion needs to come to temper, for there is a vast collective quality of life which makes it bearable. 

Though running long distances cannot provide unaltered mood; considering logically both the good and the evil IN emotion; running distance DOES provide something different from which I bear right now!  Running distance promises this without fail.  And this "difference" is what my path, this moment, calls for!  Run out ofter yourself!