Dipper Lake glitters today family SUVs disgorge, sunglasses hunted factor 40 but you know snow-melt currents surge beneath the ducks and under stand-up paddleboarders. Meet shingle, rock, slime. Ankles, shins, thighs astonished by biting surface outraged as you wade on, furious with rock, slime, weeds. Breathe. Kick. Pull. Acknowledge the persistence of life send bubbles […]
100 words on swimming
Swimming – This weekend, I became one of those women who posts photos of themselves wading into icy water wearing a bobble hat. In the dark, under the fattest, glow-in-the-dark biscuit of a moon, you couldn’t see the goose flesh as the slick cold inched upwards. And upwards. Unbearable, exquisite, until, suddenly… Oh, I can […]