About

Hello World! Most people refer to me as Cody and I generally agree with that. Like all of you, the variations of my life have changed over the decades. Some are similar to my families labels of me and some are not remotely close. At this moment, I am a writer, xrunner, faculties planner, and a want-a-be Buddhist. But that is only a description of what I am doing with this life as a human right now. The reason I have created this site is to challenge the concept of who, what, and why “I” am. When was the last time we asked ourself that question? Did my sentence instinctively direct your mind to reflect on it. Why is that?

Running towards humanity is something I have been doing all of my life. The think that amazes me is how I was so unaware of it and regularly I still am. The day to day, minute by minute by minute, mental grasping and concepts are the cause. This site and the content in it is my perception of how we are all running toward humanity. I am a novice in the subject of running and humanity, but we are what we do, right? If we run we are runners, if we write we are writers, if we are human we have humanity within us. This is my attempt to share my experiences and encounters with this life thus far.

When I was around 13 years old, I became a troubled boy. My parent’s divorce shattered my false view of reality. I began using drugs, having sex, and skipping school. At the age of 16, I ran away and traveled around the US. Hitchhiking, spent time with the Rainbow Family of Living Light, learning from a shaman named Whispering Owl, and a Guatemalan Brahman named Mantra Shara. Mantra Shara introduced me to Eastern and South American culture and philosophy. After spending several seasons in the mountains with him, I left for a temple in Denver, CO to practice Bhakti Yoga with the Hare Krishna’s.

I spend around 2 years practicing before I left. I wanted the lay life and the monastery didn’t agree. I wasn’t ready to put aside my dualistic views or desires. So I returned home to my family after not speaking to them in several years. No one knew that I was still alive. My journey thought the teenage years as a homeless hippie and yogin would be a guide and a challenge that has never left me. Since that return, my life became more “normal” to everyone. I married 3 times and had two sons, and had the dream corporate career. I was truly the mule enjoying the patch of grass as I pulled the blow.

What does it mean to run towards humanity? For me, it’s a consistent effort to be in the now and here as a human being. To be more aware of how unpredictable and uncontrollable this precious life is. To be conscious of the fact that we are what we think and do. To run towards that natural being when others and my mind want you to be someone else. I chose to run for lots of reasons, and I don’t always leave my house to do so. How and why we run is up to us.

I hope that you can find some humor in my posts, and if you get something more I owe it to those that I see as my gurus. Most of which never wore robes.