The Spirit of Water

Walden Pond, Massachusetts

... where fish come to my feet... dancing shadows touch my body... jovial dragonfly lands on my head... and sparkling ripples follow my strokes... encircled... and embraced...

Like a Duck

Walden Pond, Massachusetts

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A Day for Swimming

Mauna Kea Beach, Hawai'i aka Big Island

You swim to experience the water rippling past you, and to enjoy the floating sensation when you lie on your back and look at the blue sky and the birds circling about. Every moment of it you are simply absorbed in this ripply, luminous world, looking at the patterns and the shifting net of sunlight underneath and the sand way down below - that's what swimming is about.

ALAN WATTS, Still the Mind

With the Ocean

Hawai’i aka Big Island

I am THERE. With the Ocean. Seeing the BIG Picture.