Last Saturday I took my 60-year old body and minor vertigo out for a spin in an outdoor awareness class. Part of the class was negotiating a course through the woods by following a very long string that snaked here and there. I was later told the course was 2000 feet long. Oh, we did it blindfolded.

I was slow. I fell. I chose the “wrong” side of the string and so encountered obstacles not intended by the course designers. I couldn't immediately find where the string continued a couple times. I climbed a barbed wire fence unnecessarily and tore my pants getting back over it. I got tired.

It was great!

I am still thinking about the lessons offered by the string walk. Leaving aside various metaphors for my personal life, the experience offers insights to my decision-making process that are still unfolding for me. Of course, one of those insights may be that I think too much!