A few weeks back I took our family dog, Lucy, with me on a long walk on a quiet dirt road. The afternoon was warm without being hot, and thanks to overnight rain, the road was not dusty. Not just an automobile this afternoon, but an automobile behind me and a bicycle ahead, coming uphill in a struggle I didn’t want to interrupt. There must be an archetype at work, the way we human beings look back over our lives and marvel, ” If not for this….” For a runner, the tunnel was the tricky part because cars going in opposite directions took up most of the space.