Beginning/Introduction

+ 18 November 2009 +

Swimming, drawing, writing, photographs, job security, the search continues for those elusive museums and galleries, John Cheever, children with autism, my role as an artist, teaching others how to swim, the creation of this blog and its introductory posting. This is the list that was buried inside my head when I woke up this morning. This list reveals much of whom I am and what I constantly think about. Welcome to one and all.

Those four lines represent a summation of what I intend for this blog to focus on. My experiences as a swimmer evolved and expanded over the years. And continue to do so. I foresee a similar future for this experimental swim blog project. Unlike many blogs out there which tend to focus on the organized, competitive and consumer aspects of swimming, I aim to present swimming as a journey in life. Mine. For that is what swimming has become for me.

Where this microcosmic (blog) swimming universe of mine takes me and interested blog readers, no one really knows for sure. Not even I. There is speculation. But in the opening moments of this new project of mine, restrained enthusiasm points to those first four lines of this introduction. Randomly I will provide expanded comments on those items on my list. And the best I can hope for is to find kindred spirits in the process.

Welcome.