Contemplate

I'm sitting at my kitchen table at the cabin, watching the snow falling softly as it turns into larger and fatter flakes. Was it just 5 hours ago that I was running down on the plains in 50 degree weather? A day to contemplate change, and yet to also try to stay in the present. A minute blip in my blood test - is my today different because now I will have the shadow of a worry for the next three months? No - I will allow that worry only a small, temporary hold on my psyche. And I can sit here in the present and appreciate the snow, the river still flowing through the rocks coated in white, and the happiness from running a trail that hasn't been visited in several years.