To celebrate this year I swam in Walden Pond.
A long swim out into the centre and there I remained enjoying the sky, the warm silky smooth water, the tree-lined shore and a few other swimmers who, like myself, were in heaven on earth.
I love swimming and I cannot swim enough when I am near bodies of water be they ponds, rivers, seas or lakes.
I grew up near water and swimming from an early age in the Stockholm archipelago.
I am happiest when I live near water. Cape Cod for instance, Hydra or Ibiza...I have been lucky to have such easy proximity to the sea.
Now I live inland and have a river nearby. Or rather a burn. We swim in a waterfall whenever the weather complies. Which is not very often.
It was the loveliest way to celebrate the Equinox.
Walden Pond is one of my special places. It is where Thoreau went to live in the woods for two years and he wrote the book Walden about the experience.
Walden Pond is situated in Massachusetts, near Concord, where Emerson, Hawthorne, and the Allcotts lived and worked. If you want to know more about the Transcendalists, read Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. They were the first hippies!
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