In opting for
swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy
laps in the
practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach, grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home from
practice.
After dinner, work off some calories by challenging a friend to a game of ping pong,
practice yoga in Dewa's private shala, or
swim a couple
laps in the
swimming pool.