The pool at the Betty Wright Swim Center is warm and comforting. If you are one of those kids whom people laugh at (even the President made a feeble joke about you on the Tonight Show), if you are trying to regain movement after a stroke, or if you are looking for a peaceful place to wear your swimsuit and where no one judges you by your flab, wrinkles, and scars, you are especially welcome.
Some of their pupils will never learn to read. Some will never be able to live on their own. But the very patient instructors are undaunted. Enough of their students do learn to swim. When a beginning swimmer makes it from one end of the pool to the other, unaided, the emotion evoked in the observer is hard to describe. The observer thinks, if our special person can do this, maybe he or she can learn to do other things that normal people take for granted.
The Betty Wright Swim Center is a place of hope and quiet joy. We never miss an appointment. (The photos below were taken one year ago.)
© 2009 Stephen Yuen
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