"Swimming in an ocean of emotional amniotic fluid"

That is somewhat the way I feel right now; the quote popped into my head Wednesday. In a sense, it’s good. It’s better than taking a dive into an emotional pool that’s been drained for the summer.

It’s not so good in the sense that it means feeling things more deeply, or feeling things buried long enough in the past that I didn’t even feel them anymore — or had buried them as soon as the feelings arose. But, that’s part of the price for the path ahead.