The Water Knows Something
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Kate Washington discusses her transformative experiences through swimming in the context of personal challenges and change.
Water is the oldest promise we have. Baptism, ablution, the plunge that separates who you were from who you're about to be. Every summer we go back to it — lakes, rivers, the cold shock of an ocean in June — as if some part of us still believes the water knows something. Kate Washington, on a recent California Sun Podcast , talks to me about the fifty immersions she did before her fiftieth birthday, after caregiving and motherhood and a dissolving marriage had emptied her out. The author of " Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims " on depletion, endurance, and what it means to surface changed. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe
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