When you swim, you feel your body for what it mostly is — water — and it begins to move with the water around it… A swimmer experiences the terror and the bliss of being born, in the water like what we came from, naturally moving like we know best. So swimming is a rite of passage, a crossing of boundaries: the line of the shore, the bank of the river, the edge of the pool, the surface itself. When you enter the water, something like metamorphosis happens. Leaving behind the
