Tuesday

Tuesday

 I do not know what to say today… it’s Tuesday…somehow I feel like that day is like the Rodney Dangerfield of the week. It’s not in the middle, it’s not the end it’s not a weekend, it just gets no respect… just hangs in waiting for the next day to come. I have to tell you for over 20 years every Tuesday afternoon we would swim in the Mystic Educational Center’s pool, it was a heated therapeutic pool with lots of chlorine and in the winter it felt nice and toasty but in the summer it was like having a house on the Amazon river. But, it was one of the only places that many of our students could be successful. When their legs didn’t move on land they were able to move in the water, the heat relaxed their muscles and their joints and they were such at ease, sometimes even falling asleep with their vests on, it was a wonderful place an equalizer, a place that everybody could have a chance to be the same. So for over 2 hours we would listen to good rock and roll music and move through the water effortlessly. This was always the student’s favorite place to be. We as staff I do not think appreciated it quite as much and probably after we die, if they do an autopsy they will find chlorine ball the size of a basketball in our stomachs…20 years of chlorine is a long time. So that’s my Tuesday story, it was the best and worst of times.  I’m sorry that it closed because it offered so many people that do not have a chance to participate equally in a sport, a chance to do so.  So when you think of Tuesdays, think of it fondly with a smile and a really nice memory and all the 100’s of students that moved through there.