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One Month A Swim : February

One Month A Swim is a newsletter looking back on the month that was through my sea swimming, but also through the things that caught my eye and ears, and most importantly, my heart. If you’re new here, welcome! And if you’re not so new, thank you for sticking around!

On the morning of the Moon Fire Circle, briefly, the sky went on fire as I prepared a flask of tea in the kitchen. I walked down to the beach an hour early, for sunrise. The sea stretched calm and clear, wrinkled and creased by the mild breeze, below a ribbon of salmon pink light, a skyful of grey-blue clouds above. Nobody about.

I crouched down by the water, heels dug in the coarse wet sand, to look at the slow corkscrew of unhurried waves unfurling along the beach, and at the auburn reflections on the sea. Sometimes a gust powerful enough pressed a fast-moving, fleeting imprint on the surface. The sun was about to break through a hole in the clouds, so I stripped down to my swimsuit and waded in.

I swam out towards the l…