We visited Topstone again. Swimming in the pond is, by far, my favorite pastime now. It is simply transcendent. The pond tastes, smells, feels, sounds, and looks so beautiful. As I swim forward and look around me, the light reflects off the water and I think of those lines in The Weight of Glory that talk about beauty. “We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” Swimming in the pond is like being in Perelandra . I like to do laps back and forth across the deeper swimming area while the girls play in the shallower water. I'll also work with the girls, so that they swim better and better each time. I showed Norah the breast stroke today and she was brave enough to try it. Also today, Adele came out into the deep water where Nora