The water may seem to be cold, but often it is warmer than the air.
I had one of those heart stopping moments as I checked my phone before I left it in the car. Richard was leaving me.
We aren't together. It was that I suddenly had a greater responsibility for something. It could turn great and eventually I was glad it happened.
But that moment, the bottom had dropped out.
Dive in and be like Greta Garbo at the end of Anna Christie. Look out over the water and think of nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
It took me some effort to get out into the middle of the Pond. But it was nothing to get back.
And I came back stronger.
