This morning's walk is a little bit earlier than normal.

You ever have one of those mornings where you wake up,

and it's before you want to wake up,

and you try falling back asleep,

and you try even harder falling back asleep, and it just doesn't work. This morning was one of those

morning so I am up and I am out and I will likely finish this walk before the sunrise.

Abe and I were out walking recently, one of our evening walks, and I asked her a question,

do you feel stronger?

She paused for a moment and quietly said, not really.

And if you have been listening to the podcast for a while, you know that my wife has been through some challenging

situations over the last several years. In May 2020, she's a runner, in May 2020, she ran an

ultra marathon, 50 miles in 12 hours. That was also the year we moved from Maryland to South Carolina.

And at the end of the year, a couple of days after Christmas, she was in an auto accident to put her in a wheelchair for a couple of months.

And all of that fitness capacity that she had built up that allowed her to run 50 miles was lost.

And then last year she started having some intestinal issues.

Those issues were not resolving and she had surgery.

And so once again, there's more recovery.

So now, five months post-surgery, she continues to rebuild her strength,

continues to rebuild the fitness capacity that she had lost from the surgery and from the illness.

And as I've been watching her and I've been

that's a pretty bird someone else having trouble sleeping good morning and as I've

been watching her it's becoming pretty clear to me that she's getting stronger and

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