Today, we had a reunion for my childhood swim team. Not very many people showed up, but a few of the most significant ones for me were there, and it was awesome. Also, the cookies one person made were actually delicious – both the cookie itself and that lemon icing were awesome.
Now, I really wish we had an adult version of summer swim team. Not super competitive, but enough to give us a goal and a bit of a challenge to work on improving our swimming. For the people who love swimming and swim team, but don’t want to dedicate their lives to it or anything. Somewhere between the college athletes and the drunken social kickball – that’s what I would love to have for swim team. That would be awesome.
I was not great at swim team, as practices were in the early morning, and I was not a morning person until just a couple years ago. So, I never improved much during the season, not like most others in the team who went to practice even half the time. But I loved it when I did go to practices, and I loved the whole social and family aspect of swim team. We really were all like family to each other, and it was amazing. The older kids watched out for, taught, coached, and had fun with the younger kids, and everyone learned so much with each other and from each other. We had some valuable bonds that were different from standard friendships. I guess that was s team bond. Seeing each other today was so easy and wonderful, though most of us hadn’t seen each other for close to 20-25 years. And there was no hurt that we hadn’t stayed in each others’ lives – we hadn’t expected to do so, you could say. But we all valued the time we did spend together and the relationships we had then. And we reveled in getting to touch base outside of swim team… decades later.
Thank you, God, for this wonderful time today. Please, heal this cold that I seem to have. Help to heal us all. Amen.
Post-a-day 2023
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