Swimming in July
The feeling when you jump from a high place and fall through warm air and then hit the water. The way the bubbles explode white around you as you shoot into the dark. The light tickling as the bubbles rush across your skin.
Just the pure physical joy of thrashing your arms around in water. To fill the kid’s buckets and throw it at the sun—the way th... See more
Just the pure physical joy of thrashing your arms around in water. To fill the kid’s buckets and throw it at the sun—the way th... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Swimming in July
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually, the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their indi
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Like a fish in an infinite ocean of clear liquid, feel into the space around you as if it were water. Inhale and exhale as if you were breathing water’s thickness, drawing in and releasing the buoyant clarity surrounding you. Feel the…
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David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
pas attrapé un seul poisson en six heures. « C’est agréable de ne rien prendre, m’expliqua le maître, nous ne sommes pas là pour cela. » Alors, à quoi bon ? ! Le pêcheur s’efforce d’être, et si vous y mettez trop d’ardeur, vous échouez. Pour Yates, on fusionne avec l’eau, on s’abandonne à la contemplation du monde mystérieux sous la surface de l’ea
... See moretom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être oisif: ... dans un monde de dingue (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
I highly recommend the poem “For Julia, in the Deep Water” [by John N. Morris] to parents who, like me, are navigating the question of when and whether to let their kids swim away.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer's day, was that it had not been long ago since I had known everything.
I looked at Lettie in the moonlight. "Is that how it is for you?"
I asked.
"Is what how it is for me?"
"Do you still know everything, all the time?"
She shook her head.
... See more"I circled around summer noons and October midnights, sensing that there somewhere in the bright and dark seasons must be something that was really me." - Ray Bradbury
We can be good swimmers, but can we be a river and experience the fears and hopes of a river?