Julia Louis-Dreyfus

So that was a highlight of the lesson was pretending you were lost at sea and then peeing in the drain.

It was money well spent, I have to say.

I wanted the kids to learn to swim early for safety, of course, but also because I believe that swimming is one of the great primal human pleasures.

Chat GPT is never going to take swimming away from us.

Swimming is cool because it connects us to our evolutionary past and has all kinds of therapeutic benefits for the body and for the mind.

And it's just also the most fun.

Cannonballs and splashing, what could be better?

Our whole family actually...

recently, well, we all jumped into a very freezing cold river because we were hiking with some friends in the Scottish Highlands.

And there they call it wild swimming.

And if you hike with my husband, by the way, and there is water, no matter how cold, he is going to jump into it.

But this time, we really all happily jumped in and

floated in the gentle current, and we were all so excited and laughing and giggling together.

You know, everybody's a kid in the water.

You know, everybody's a wild swimmer, ultimately.

I'm a lap swimmer now, though.

I've gone back to swimming.

And I'm not fast, I'm not strong particularly, but it's good exercise.

And looking down at that lane line, wearing my full body protective sun suit, I'm slathered in zinc oxide in my swim cap with my special dark goggles and my swimmer's snorkel that goes up the middle of my face.

Can I say, I look goagous and I feel sublime.