Flying

Time: 5:15 p.m.

Weather: 68 F

Route: The Three Segments of Western Greenway

Distance: 2.5 miles

I picture a cloud on a distant Earth-twin planet. Water and land and air. Trees and waterfalls and oceans. But it is without life -- no birds or animals, no fish or insects. It's my mind's simulacrum, made for my pleasure. And in it, I race across its surface, muscles pulling and arms pumping in perfect harmony. I am the only live thing, and I stride, feeling all existence in my being, as my essence. 

Today, for two short miles. I felt as if I ran on that planet. Each stride perfect. Head and body within each moment; alive and gone, alive and gone, alive and gone. That space opened here, for me, by letting go, and allowing the physical and mental to be one thing. 

When the feeling subsided, and I slowed to a regular pace and then stopped and walked, a euphoria kept pace with me -- at least for a few minutes. And then it was over. No sadness came. No yearning to go back. Only a happy memory now nestling in my mind. 

I'll access it from time to time. I'll find it in my dreams. Or in a moment with friends. It will be there when I walk. But mostly it will stay away, fueling my subconscious, and giving me peace each day.