Running down a mountain

OK, this is something you ALL must do.  I don't care how bad your knees are, or how old you think you are, or how mature you consider yourself to be.  You must try running down a mountain sometime. 

Here's how:  

1. Find a cool mountain and climb it.  Have trekking poles at the ready.
2. Have a fantastic self-revelation at the top.
3. On the way down as you are rejoicing at your self-revelation, begin to let yourself rely more and more on the trekking poles, using all 4 appendages to propel you down the trail.
4. Beware of tree roots and rocks as they can impede a nice jog and land you in a faceplant.
5. Continue to gain speed until you are on the verge of being out of control.
6. Maintain this as you lope along using your trekking poles to help you leap over rough spots in the trail.
7. Feel free!

Yup.  That's what happened today.  It's a lot of fun.  No faceplants, just sheer joy!

Oh, and what was my said revelation?  Well, it's difficult to explain.  But, in non-well-thought-out words... I realized the difference in doing something out of love rather than doing the same thing out of pride.  I experienced (yet again, maybe now I will learn to heed this more instantaneously) that feeling of what a correct answer is internally, and to stop all this rigamoroll (spell check?) of trying to think something out when I already have had the answer all along.  It's a bittersweet thing to experience joy and sorrow at the same time.  But it makes running down mountains that much more fulfilling.  

More to come, I'm sure :-)