For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: immerse.
My daughter loves the water. Here she is going into Lake Matinenda in Ontario. She swam across it, miles, with me in a small canoe.
immersive experience
Category Archives: swimming
rainproof
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: rain.
slippery
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: slippery.
The front rocks at the lake slope down into the water. The rocks are terrifically slick when it first rains.
They are also slick when we try to step into the lake to swim.
We invented a new way to get in this year. On the edge of the water, go forward a bit and then…
slide in….
practice
For the Daily Prompt: patience.
Athletes, singers, scientists, computer programmers, translators, think of all the disciplines where it takes so much practice and patience. This is our team synchronized swim team in 2010.
red capes
For the Daily Prompt: fact.
cousins
For Wordless Wednesday, from 2006.
the luxury of space
For the Daily Prompt: simplify.
We say we want simpler lives, but do we? The Olympics are starting. I took this at the 2012 National Synchronized Swimming event. It was anything but simple. Teams of eight girls, often with two alternates, with gear and parents and coaches, converging from all over the country. Hours and hours of practice, elaborate swimsuits, music, hair fixed in place for the performance, lifts out of the water.
The front part of the pool is empty. The teams of girls are along the edge, warming up, getting ready for competition. There were over thirty teams. Not simple at all.
Magazines portray houses with a shelf or a table, empty except for a vase and a single book. My books escape their shelves and careen around the house, in spite of my little free library… My house does not look like those magazines, but I love it.
What does simplify mean? For me, it is not the empty surfaces. I admire those but don’t much aspire to them. For me it means spending quiet time every day listening to my heart and doing my inner work.
Blessings.
