Lifeguards 🏊 and Lookie-Lous 👀

When you're drowning, everything looks like a life preserver

I want to be the kind of person who models vulnerability as well as stubborn resiliency. So here goes…

My first job, after a short-lived career as a ballerina, was as a Lifeguard at Wild Rivers, a now-closed water park in Irvine, CA. In CPR and Lifeguard training you are taught that you never come in contact with a drowning person. People thrash about w…