Topic: Swimming and Diving Culture

Thousands of yards following the same black line on the pool floor. A devotional about what the meditative repetition of swimming produces in the athlete who pays attention to it.

Swimmers shave their bodies before championships to reduce drag. A devotional about the ritual of removing everything that slows you down.

The diver has three seconds to execute a skill that took years to build, from a height that the body was not designed to find comfortable. A devotional about the specific relationship between divers and fear.

Swimming measures performance in hundredths and thousandths of a second. A devotional about the particular honesty of a sport that holds you accountable to the fraction.

The relay exchange has to happen in a window measured in hundredths of a second. A devotional about the trust the touchpad handoff requires.