Introducing Wild Waters

I don’t remember how old I was when I first learned to swim. Or when I first saw the ocean. I only know that I have always been in the water, and it is to the water I turn at all the important times in my life. Celebrations, social activities, swimming races, holidays. And in times of fight or flight, when my nervous system is working overtime to protect me (and has confused itself about whether or not I do, actually, need protecting) my mind turns to the ocean to find stillness.