THE ROAD

"Montoya could forgive anything of a bull fighter who had aficion, he could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had aficion he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me and all my friends. Without ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bullfighting."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

The road is at once all things; a place to sharpen and tone our instinct, to test our will, and in the end to guide us home along its course however winding or direct.

Sometimes what happens on the road makes us better and helps us to understand more fully the macro and not the micro of every day life and the training and the living we do in between. Yesterday I was tested and I fell, I won't say that I failed because I learned something. 

So on Sunday today when the run was a little harder and I was a little more sore and a little less willing, I embraced gratitude, for this day, and for the pain and the lesson learned, and for the resolve and the experience of being able to learn and benefit from where I fell short and hung my head.

So today, thank you for today and thank you for the opportunity for growth and rebirth among the asphalt, road, trail, or whatever medium exists to discover what we are...

Feeling like this...

"There will come a time when I'll be a child again, just playing in creations backyard."

-Popeye "Jack" Watson, Green Parrot Bar, Key West