December 11, 2023 Today at the lake, the water was cool and cold and perfect. All my stress dissolved. In the water I can other have superficial thoughts because my brain empties. Or, more like my thoughts are surface, observational, fleeting. There’s some sand on the bottom. There’s some seaweedy thingies. There’s some wilting milfoil. There’s that rock that marks the edge of the swim area. I can’t worry about anything in my life because in the water my brain doesn’t work like that. I didn’t even hate on the birds today even thought there were globs of white poop