Would you believe Scott brought diving gear to the pool at the office/house we rent in Shoreline? It was a blast! Simone and Liam shared a tank of compressed air and disappeared to the bottom of the pool. I was taken back by seeing children on the bottom of the pool but they were clearly having the time of their lives! When was the last time you hung out under the surface? I bent over the edge of the pool and dipped an ear into the water. The soft sound of their breathing traveled under the water.
When a miracle happens and I actually get myself into the chilly pool to do a few laps, time stops just a little. Or at least the sound has been turned down. It’s a wee pause. That is when I can feel the weight of a day working and parenting lift a bit. When I dive down and look up at the surface from below I feel like one of us, the people up there standing by the pool or perhaps it is me under here, is in a parallel universe. The experiences are the same, but the underwater version includes the sound cushion, the wee pause, the water enables.