| One advantage of being an English teacher is having an excuse to read and reread some great stories.
I’ve really enjoyed re-reading “The Old Demon”, by Pearl
Buck, along with other stories I read when I was in 7th and 8th
grades. I particularly like the Buck’s description
of the funny yet strong old Chinese woman, Mrs. Wang’s, “encounter” with the river as she opens its gates in order to
drown an approaching Japanese army. 
“then she felt [the river] seize her and lift her up to the
sky. I t was beneath her and around
her. It rolled her joyfully hither and
thither, and then, holding her close and enfolded, it went rushing against the
enemy”
This completely describes how I feel about body surfing,
minus the dying and the killing thousands of my enemies part. I love being wrapped in furiously powerful currents
of water, preferably without dying ;)
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