{"id":896,"date":"2021-08-07T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/?p=896"},"modified":"2021-08-07T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:12:13","slug":"swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a>Morning Swim<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early morning clouds and fog are burning off. Peg is swimming back to the cottage, she is a very strong swimmer, much more at home in the water than I. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get up from the deck chair, gather her beach\ntowel and walk to the end of the deck. Peg strides confidently out of the water\nand up the stairs to meet me. I hold the towel out and wrap it around her. Her\nbody might be cold but her lips are warm, we kiss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hold her firmly in an extended embrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going in to take a shower,\u201d she says,\nthen quickly disappears, leaving me standing there aroused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oh well, we can do that later<\/em>, I think to\nmyself, <em>when the others are out walking the streets of Lake George Village.\nI like it better in the afternoon anyway, I can get a nap afterwards, then get\ncleaned up and have dinner with the others who always bring the makings of a\nnice dinner, and wine, always wine.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have my own private dialogue. A private\ndialogue then, and now as I have this dream, this dream in the middle of the\nmorning, sitting in my easy chair thinking of the times we had together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How am I ever going to find a woman like her?<\/em> More of my\nprivate dialogue, trying to hold the memory before it leaves me forever. Leaves\nme as she has, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although, I am slightly better now, not\ngrieving as hard or as frequently. The memories of our time at the lake are\ntriggered by the open photo albums I have scattered throughout the house, but I\nam afraid to close them, afraid to put them away lest I lose her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am resigned to the fact that she is never\ncoming back, but still, the memories are a dream I may awaken from where everything\nwill be as it was. She will be taunting me; I will get aroused and the fog will\npart forever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Swim The early morning clouds and fog are burning off. Peg is swimming back to the cottage, she is a very strong swimmer, much more at home in the water than I. I get up from the deck chair, gather her beach towel and walk to the end of the deck. Peg strides confidently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelchroniclestories.com\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}