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Layers and layers and layers. Today I took my first swim at Lytle Beach. The warm air and dazzling water diamonds beneath the spring blue sky were a gift to my eyes, and a relief to my body. Even in a full wetsuit I felt the chill today , but the sunshine delivered a bitContinue reading “March 17, 2021”

Evening comes quickly. Everything comes quickly. Tides turn quickly. Emotions turn quickly. Cold water turns energy around quickly. But the turn of life is slow. The unfolding, the discovery, the wisdom, the epiphanies and the acceptance. Acceptance is the slowest of all. A few days ago I swam in the late afternoon sunlight at Fletcher’sContinue reading “March 11, 2021”

I’ve been hiding out a bit lately. Figuratively and literally. More out of the water than in the water, as the last two weeks have included a lot of treading water. On land. And hesitating. Like that feeling right before you put your foot into the cold water, preparing for a swim, just before, becauseContinue reading “March 9, 2021”

Birds of the sea. They are everywhere— above the water, on the water, under the water, near the water. Just outside our door and out on the bay. Some days lone herons let out haunting croaks that rattle across the bay at night, echoing loudly over the green waters and reaching clear to our house,Continue reading “February 28, 2021”

The sea is a great equalizer. But things aren’t equal. I met up with a stranger yesterday to take a swim at Blakely Harbor. Having never met this woman before, I had a hurdle to overcome that I hadn’t anticipated when I put out a call for company earlier in the day on a FBContinue reading “February 23, 2021”

One wild windy, shockingly beautiful February day, a swim and a beach walk with whipped ears and white caps and a shimmering sun sparkled sea and flying sea mist and this refrain, “I’m so happy! I’m so happy!” Amazing the difference a day can make. On those glorious days when everything aligns and you hoverContinue reading “February 21, 2021”

Dusk. Deep blue sky, dark land. Inked grey clouds hover above wobbly legs and bare skin tip toeing over sharp barnacles. You are here to face the steady wind. And yourself. The air is cold. The shaggy, jagged beach is empty. Two are breathing, one vast and formless, and the other one solid, of fleshContinue reading “February 20, 2021”

The open water. It’s always open. No reservations. Well, there are some reservations—stinging jellyfish, frozen faces, feet, hands, poor water quality, and fear of hypothermia (especially this time of year). But there are no “Reservations” needed to secure a time or lane or day. And space. There is plenty of that. And there is alwaysContinue reading “February 18, 2021”

Funny how things line up sometimes, and nudge a person into one decision or another, like an offering from the future pulling you forward towards something you had only dreamed about. And just like that, you are living your life imagined. I dreamt of swimming in snow all winter long. My dream came true yesterday.Continue reading “February 14, 2021”

I realized today that our hearts are like the sea. Both must hold everything good and strong and beautiful and both must also hold pain, all of it, under the strain of howling winds and lightening from above with waves twisting and churning and crashing over shadows of loss. Our hearts and the sea mustContinue reading “February 10, 2021”