Glide

You belong here.

Coastal landscape with seals and squid (1661), Jan van Kessel

I’ve been swimming for an hour a day. At first, it felt desperate: I had no other choice after I injured my knee. I couldn’t move that well for months. Everything I did felt slow and painful.

Now I have no pain at all, and the more I swim, the more cheerful I am. This explains why dolphins hav…