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The Journal.

Quiet, considered writing on movement, recovery, the nervous system and the unhurried life.

  • Cold Water, Warm Community

    Cold Water, Warm Community

    Nobody steps into cold water gracefully! There is always a moment — the breath that catches before you commit, the split second between knowing you are going to do it and the water closing around you — where every instinct fires at once. The body does not want this. The mind is loudly questioning every…

  • Why Traditional Sauna Heat

    Why Traditional Sauna Heat

    There is something that happens in a traditional sauna that is difficult to explain to someone who has never experienced it. Not the heat itself — though that is considerable. Not the physical effects, though those are real. It is something more than either of those things. A kind of enforced arrival. The noise of…