Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h with Jenny Blake

Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h with Jenny Blake

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Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h with Jenny Blake
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🏊🏻‍♀️ The Daily Ritual I Refuse To Do Without, Part One

🏊🏻‍♀️ The Daily Ritual I Refuse To Do Without, Part One

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Mar 19, 2025
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🏊🏻‍♀️ The Daily Ritual I Refuse To Do Without, Part One
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“To swim is to enter a new state.”
—Lou Stoppard’s essay, “Winter Swimming” in At The Pond

“In water, all possibilities seem infinitely extended . . .
. . . you are free of the tyranny of gravity and the weight of the atmosphere.”
—Roger Deakin, Waterlog (as quoted by Stoppard)

It’s 5:30 a.m., and I’m typing in a dark hotel room after two-and-a-half cups of Starbucks Dark Roast coffee, percolated in pods with disposable plastic brew baskets.

I should be preparing opening remarks for my Free Time keynote tomorrow morning, one I’m nervous about. But I’m not.1

I shouldn’t even be writing this essay.

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