Poolside Ponderings

This morning I headed out to swim my laps once again at pool #4.  I normally do not swim at this pool. From my previous post,  “As Fate Would Have It”…you know I swam there Monday due to 3 other pools being unavailable.

Swimming laps for me, is a special time where I can just be in the zone, while smoothly and joyfully moving through the water. Being at one with the water and the universe. Healthy body, calm clear mind and ...

This morning I was excited and motivated to hop in the pool and do my morning laps. My normal training pool was closed for chlorination. My back-up pool was closed due to a broken pump. Pool #3 no room for me. So I ended up at pool #4 an hour later.

As I approached my lane, I noticed a sandwich-board style sign in front of lane #1.

It had a picture of a young baby floating on it’s back, with the sign ...

There are some notable valedictions and salutations across the world that honor not only the actual greeting or farewell itself, but a deeper soul connectedness. These greetings transcend culture and nationality. They offer both the speaker and the recipient a moment of acceptance, acknowledgement and gratitude for just being.

Aloha is both greeting and farewell from Hawaii and is translated as “peace”, “affection” and “compassion”. A folk etymology claims that it derives from a compound of the Hawaiian words alo ...

Putting two elements together in the right combination can yield amazing results. Take the simplicity of hydrogen and oxygen in perfect proportion and viola`–water, H2O.

But water to us is more than the mere combination of elements—as beautiful as that is. Water is life. Our adult bodies are comprised of 50-65 % water, and an infant’s body, 70% water. Our planet is, ironically, named “Earth” since nearly 71% of its surface is water.

As humans we bathe in ...