4 loops
lake nokomis open swim
78 degrees
There was a chance of scattered thunderstorms tonight so I wondered if open swim would happen, but the weather shifted and I was able to swim 4 choppy loops, some of it even with sun.
10 Things
- cold. water
- fluffy clouds
- translucent bubbles
- a duck crossing my path near the big beach
- the orange buoy looking like a moon, faint and far off
- choppy water — breathing only to my right for long stretches
- lake water with a soft green glow
- a few vines floating by
- swans and sailboats
- the most popular color for safety buoys tethered to torsos today: bright pink
I can’t remember if I posted this bit from Nobody before, but I’m posting it again as something to think about while I swim:
if only my eyes could sink under the surface
and join those mackerel shoals in their matching suits
whose shivering inner selves all inter-mirrored
all in agreement with water
wear the same
wings
I’m thinking about how opaque the lake water is, how I’ve only seen a few fish, and never a group of them shivering or shimmering, how my eyes are hardly involved in lake swimming. Okay, they’re involved, but to a much lesser extent than one would expect.
question: do I want to be in agreement with water?
With all of the swells and choppy water, I was not in agreement with it today. Or was I? I didn’t mind swimming into walls of water, unable to see, stroking harder, lifting my head higher. I don’t want the water to be this rough all of the time, but sometimes it’s fun, like today.