Swim: Why We Love The Water (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
L'ho comprato d'impulso, perché amo nuotare, ma è anche stata una lettura molto piacevole: mentre lo leggevo avevo voglia di correre subito in piscina, dato che trasmette immediatamente tutto l'entusiasmo, l'amore per l'acqua come elemento quasi naturale. Nuotare, infatti, è un po' come viaggiare alla ricerca di se stessi. Fa stare bene non solo nel fisico, ma anche nella mente. Ho provato una grande invidia per l'autrice, che ha sfidato se stessa, attraversando l'Ellesponto. I used to love to swim, before my muscular and coordination loss prevented me from that pleasure. I had a little of that former joy reading Lynn Sherr's _Swim: Why We Love The Water_, a lengthy meditation with a good dose of history and art and sports wisdom. The concentration swimming demands means it is where some of us are fully present in the moment, learning from swimming what we might learn through other spiritual practices. Indeed, I know many people whose best time to meditate or pray is swimming (why not? we have other forms of movement meditation and prayers - walking, yoga, finger labyrinths, tai chi, feeding the hungry, visiting the imprisoned.) Some of what Sherr includes may startle, and that's a good thing; let us have the water dissolve divisions and assumptions and pull our focus back to being present to what is.
What do You think about Swim: Why We Love The Water (2012)?
Very disjointed. She wanted to frame a book around an experience and didn't do a great job of it.
—SLopez
Fun fact- and anecdote filled book that entertained me through a couple of insomniac nights.
—broadwaygeek101
Delightful book/writing/topic...even if you don't swim.
—julsz
