let your passion create action

I had this article sitting in my in box for a few days and I think today would be a good day to post. It’s a new moon, a new cycle good time to start over, start a new project and of course a new week. Its all passion, desire and being in one with something in this case the sea. I could probably relate to her description of being in the ocean seeing how much I love the ocean. Being at the beach on the open water or in it having a private conversation on its beauty the inspiration it brings ….

And then there was her drive, her desire to do something and she did – that in it self is a true inspiration and an inspiration & a motivator to us who are embarking something new when it seems not many people have faith in us or maybe its just a feeling but I think this story helps us defy the odds and go with makes take action to do the things we are passionate about …..

...The Sea is like a Person …

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."
~ Gertrude Ederle

With passion for the sea, Gertrude "Tudy" Caroline Ederle (1906-), on this day August 6th in 1926, became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Despite urgent pleas from her coach to stop because of treacherous seas, the nineteen year crossed the channel's 21 miles in 14 hours and 31 minutes, breaking the existing men's record by one hour, 59 minutes.

"Desire," said writer Robert Anthony, "is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action.

"The daughter of a New York delicatessen owner, Ederle learned to swim as a young child and began competing as a teenager. She broke 24 amateur and world records between 1921 and 1925. At the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics, she won one gold and two bronze medals.

For her triumphant trek across the English Channel, from Cape Gris- Nez, France, to Dover, England, Ederle wore a red bathing cap and two-piece black bathing suit. She coated herself with lanolin and heavy grease to protect her body from the frigid water.

"I knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it," she said when she made it ashore. "All the women of the world will celebrate." Propelled to stardom, she was the first person honored in a New York ticker-tape parade.

~~Let your passion create action~~

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