Acadia University swimming pool gallery — Wolfville, NS

Caucasian Male, early 30s, with long brown hair in ponytail and five-o’clock shadow, wearing glasses, blue T-shirt, and grey track pants.

The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer (Wingspread Publishers)

Page 85:

Everyone of us has had experiences which we have not been able to explain: a sudden sense of loneliness, or a feeling of wonder or awe in the face of the universal vastness. Or we have had a fleeting visitation of light like an illumination from some other sun, giving us in a quick flash an assurance that we are from another world, that our origins are divine.

His daughter is waving to him now — a giggling, confident, miniature Esther Williams in green. She twirls in place, dragging her fingers on the surface of the pool. “Daddy!” she shouts. “I dunked my head four times in a row!” He waves back and smiles, feeling pride, feeling love, feeling envy. To swim under water had always been his dream.

Ami McKay