Word for the Week:: Float

I'm not an exceptional swimmer.  I'm not going to pretend to claim anything even remotely close to it.  But I do love a really strong and ambitious push off the side of the pool, with a gush of a sort of parting sea surrounding my body. That's such a great feeling.  The initial plunge, the exhilaration, the washing into the new...
But what I most love is the floating following the plunge.  It's the ultimate "Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...." The complete release and relaxing into the unfolding of that bold action of the adrenaline rushed plunge.
I excel in my ability to float (if I can just get myself to stay there for a while and not think of what else I need to be doing.)
I also excel at the doggy paddle.

(photo: elena kalis)