"When everything else has gone from my brain ... what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that."
Annie Dillard
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Thursday, August 1, 2024
Pee-Wee Olympics
Into this week of lake and family come scenes from across the seas: Strong-shouldered swimmers who wiggle like dolphins. Graceful gymnasts who defeat gravity with nerve and style.
The children imitate them, do somersaults and dance on coffee tables. It all starts here, the advertisements say.
I think, yes, maybe it does ... with renewed appreciation for the families of those who twirl and swim and dive.