On progress

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” ― Alan Turing

Happy Friday, beautiful people. I’m back from a few very full weeks of family vacation time and a business trip to Dallas. I am happy to share that progress is being made in many spheres of my life, despite the intensity and fullness that has dominated the last few months.

This week’s picture is a sampling of the photographs I took while living in an apartment over the Meramec River valley. That apartment had a balcony and a tree that dominated the view. When I scan through the folder containing over 220 photos depicting different seasons, skies, and weather I’m reminded that things are always shifting and changing, even when we can’t easily see it.

Similarly - the post-chemo blood draws illustrate drastic reductions in my mother’s CA-125 marker levels, suggesting that her cancer is responding beautifully to treatment. This evidence alongside her team’s thoughtful preparation of her for each next step has been consoling to us all.

My spreadsheet of miles is slowly growing, and these early training days logging miles have been fruitful and injury free. As someone who likes to go fast and hard, I’m grateful that I have lot of past experience ramping up to keep me more narrowly focused on the week in front of me and the miles of the day. An ultra is not a 5K; I will need many weeks to get to the hours on my feet that this race will require.

Turing’s quote made me pause initially but I find I do agree: while we can try to predict and forecast what is to come, we can only truly see a short distance ahead.

In this present moment, what can you see that needs to be done?