Tuesday, November 19, 2013  treading water  You know that
feeling in a swimming pool when you think you've reached a point
where you're at a depth where you should be able to reach the
bottom so you stretch your feet down, and then all of a sudden
you can't find the bottom, and your chin dips under the water,
the bottom isn't where you thought it was at all, and all of a
sudden there's that moment of panic, disorientation, almost of
falling, sinking? For a moment you keep going down, how far down
it is to reach the bottom? You don't remember the water being
this deep. And you can't find it. You bob back up to the top,
gasping for breath, looking for air. Are you where you thought
you were? Everything looks the same. But everything underneath
your feet has somehow changed.  You look around you and everyone
seems to have not had any trouble navigating this new depth. Did
they grow somehow over time and you missed it? Are they all
taller and breathing easily over these inches of water that are
suddenly over your