Muses

“I can swim from Cuba to Florida.” Well, not me of course.

“Jellyfish come at dusk.’

Diana Nyad mid-swim on when she needs to get in her shirt.

Those damnable jellyfish.

I’m watching The Other Shore — the documentary of Diana Nyad’s dream to swim from Cuba to Florida.

As a very mediocre swimmer and 51 year old watching 61-year-old Nyad’s journey is just expletive unbelievable.

It testifies to the human spirit and well, something she has that I don’t have.

When they pulled her out after swimming short of her goal (she swam 91 miles factoring in the current) my 13-year-old daughter said, “At least she got tan.”

My husband said,”This is the hardest thing I’ve ever seen.”

After her second failed attempt, Nyad said she wanted to try again.  Her partner replied, “Diana, you’ve said ‘one more time’ . . . three times.”

You’ve got to see this.

I will never whine about physical pain during exercise again.

Okay. Maybe that is a tad optimistic.

Thoughts —

NaBloPoMo Day 10

           

           

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