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It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.
“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea”. ~Isak Dinesen
The first time I went in a boat, a canoe, I cried. The little boat would rock too much. I was too young. The water was too wet. I didn’t want to fall in.
The second time I went in a boat, a sweep, I wept with pain. My teammates and I pulled and pushed and pulled and pushed as our coxswain yelled the tempo. It was an ugly love, but I found it there on Lake Samish in Bellingham.
The third time I went in a boat, a kayak, I found joy. Pure solitude, soft gentle rocking, swaying of heart and soul. I may have been on something, but I swear dolphins swam with us and sea otters bobbed their heads to greet us. Birds sang specifically to us and little animated hearts floated out of my head like a cartoon.
A girl and her boat: Oh, to be one with the water.
Where I was meant to be.
*The title of this post is a quote from Anne Lamott’s “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
**Photos by me.
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Ahhh, the second picture. I can feel the salty air.
So true about salt water. To pain and pushing(or pulling) through the pain.
i love both those quotes, anne lamott
is awesome.
i have gluten sensitivity and am still struggling to deal with it alll the time and not just whenifeellikeit.