Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Kate Teller's senior director and your host for this

episode. I am notorious for my obsession with sitting close to any body of water

much to the dismay of my husband, because due to

this and tides, he has had his glasses, his phone, and the majority of our romantic ocean-side

dinner in Thailand swept away forever.

Still, I always pull up close whenever I can.

So much happens around water.

And in this episode, we're diving into the deep end with stories about the push and pull the power and promise of the water.

First up we have Linda Grocer. She told this at a Boston story slam where the theme of the night was,

appropriately, water. Here's Linda live at the mall.

So I'm in Burlington, Vermont, and I'm heading out for a run on the bike path where it turns into the causeway out onto Lake Champlain and it's cold and

miserable but I am desperate to shake off this anxiety that I have because I have to

sleep on this boat tonight.

So I am not far from where my friends are,

where I'm staying, and I've been coming up there quite a lot, mostly right after I had left the family home and left my husband of 25 years.

And going to Vermont became like a respite because I had such tension, you know, keeping the secret of my marriage that was failing. in Vermont I could sit on their porch look at the

water just relax and breathe so this trip I'm actually taking a sailing course where I'm going to be spending the

entire week living on board this boat and I have claustrophobia.

Six o'clock I suck it up and I head on down to the harbor.

I go in and these couple of guys are scurrying around picking up these parcels with

overflowing groceries. We trudge out to the boat. It's dark and rainy.

We shove everything away. It's dark and rainy.

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