MISSION LOG
One Sol. One mission. One step forward.
During thyroid cancer treatment, I stopped asking, “How much longer?”
I started asking:
“What is today’s mission?”
Mission Log is a real-time record of what happens when life continues without waiting for certainty.
Some missions involve treatment.
Others involve writing, community, difficult conversations, ordinary errands, unexpected laughter, or simply listening to what the day requires.
Each Sol marks another day aboard Pathfinder.
The days continue whether or not every one becomes a published entry. A Mission Log is written when the day reveals something worth preserving.
This is not a record of defeating uncertainty.
It is a record of living within it.
Welcome aboard.
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Welcome Back
On July 27, I opened a fresh composition book. The three notebooks before it held Morning Pages from February through June. Together, they carried me toward radioactive iodine treatment and then stopped. Now the treatment was behind me. My body wasn’t finished with it, but I had made it through. The first words on the…
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What Care Can Hold
Before the first appointment of the day, I had a conversation with Jeff about Bear. I already knew the truth. I couldn’t care for Bear physically or financially. Wanting him wasn’t enough. Taking him in when I couldn’t give him what he needed wouldn’t have been fair to either of us. Knowing that didn’t make…