This blog started 3 years ago after I finished a swim across Lake Tahoe (the “true width” swim, for swimming fans out there). The idea was that getting into a “slipstream” was a good metaphor for a good swim, and hence the name of the blog. While the Tahoe swim was the impetus for this exercise in self-revelation, the Tahoe swim also intersected with a time in my life when I finally–after 56 years–felt like I had agency. I’d finally left a job I should have left a long time ago, my family was healthy and prosperous, I was in love with my husband (I still am, btw), and I was feeling like I had the ability to “make” things happen.
What is the saying? “Man plans, God laughs.” Over the last three years that feeling of agency has been transformed, through all kinds of unexpected twists and turns of life, into composure and acceptance, at least on a good day. So while I may still write about swimming from time to time, there are lots of other good things in life to share and ponder. Hoping to write more frequently, and if you want to follow along with that caveat about the title, that would be great.
Swimming in the Slipstream 