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In the mornings you can find me

doing jumping jacks

on my bathroom floor.

I don’t know how I talk myself into these things…

The water gets turned to freezing.

I mean, the last 13 times have been a breeze,

right? Wrong!

Every day I am surprised by

how cold water can get and, as

I suppress high-pitched yelps of pain and shock,

my breath escapes through my skin, and I feel badly

about torturing that tube of toothpaste this morning.

I feel like a tube of toothpaste.

An empty tube.

Empty of logic and common sense, BUT

full of determination and drive —

running in place underneath the shower faucet.

“It’s fun” is what I will later say.

“You should try it!”

I pride myself on being slightly sadistic.

This has been my weekly shower update – in the form of a poem.

I have now completed 13 cold showers! I am almost half way there. I’ve heard that many of you are also taking me up on this challenge.

Specifically:

Teal Fiddler  (from “Teal’s Bookbag” )

and

Ligeia Tunnicliffe  (from “Shekhinah: The Grace of his Loving Touch”

Keep Going!! We can make it through this together!

If you are also doing the cold water challenge, let me know and I will mention you and your blog on my next cold shower update.

Cheers!

Related Links

Day One: 30 Day Cold Water Challenge

15 Ways to Survive a 15 Minute Cold Shower

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Teal

Love the poem! It sums up the experience nicely 🙂

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HA! that’s awesome! I only wish I had thought of an ode to cold showers. I too took the 30 day challenge when I read joel’s blog back in March of last year…and now, I am proud to say I’m 500+ days in and i love/hate ’em. They don’t get any easier do they? Awesome! Love it!

Nope, they definitely don’t get any easier. Wow! I’m extremely impressed. I can’t believe you’ve taken so many cold showers. I am 22 days in now. Home stretch. I’ve got to say that I’m pretty excited for my first warm shower in a month. I do think I’m going to continue taking a couple cold showers a week though.

You should write an ode!! I’d read it!

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