a run of crappy surf here at home gives me the chance to mind-surf back two weeks ago to mexico. best crew: 🐈🎁. best surf. 🌊🌊 best time learning new longboard skills. best margaritas! also: THIS IS WHAT A SCORPION LOOKS LIKE. 🦂
Wishing the most glorious of book birthdays to @carolinembpaul, one of the best humans on the planet, for TOUGH BROAD: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age! When I said you were my North Star f
My grandfather and Baby Plant on the @nytimes homepage today. 🌱🐉😭 Feeling all the feelings all over again. Thank you to Aaron Retica and @nytopinion for letting me tell you all a little more about my gunggung. Here are some photos of Baby Plant&rs
this is 47. 🌱 this is the face of someone who is happy to be on this planet with you. thank you for all the kind birthday wishes today. for the past year i’ve either been writing a book, or hiding from writing that book (in water, where else).
a really great morning in the pool, fog wisping off the water. wishing you the happiest of new beginnings this year. 🌊✨🌱
What a life. My grandfather, Suey Lin Dong, died early this morning in hospice care, surrounded by all his children. He was just shy of 102. He was born in rural China, fled the Communist revolution to Hong Kong, moved to NYC Chinatown, and worked fo
year in gratitude, family edition.✨ some special moments with loved ones near and far. thank you for being in my life.💗
hello december. can’t tell you how grateful i am to be able to embrace joy, the ocean, laughing my head off, and spending time with old friends and new this week. in pretty overwhelming ways, this has been the most challenging year of my life.
Seattle friends! Honored to be part of this climate event with @patagonia at @townhall_seattle on December 8. Please join us ✨🌊🌱 Posted @withregram • @patagonia Forget Mars. Our best chance for thriving is right here on Earth.
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autumnal OB is the best OB. 🌊🍁✨
a stunner of an evening under the bridge with a fantastic group of artists and writers: WATER, curated by @veronicacroberts with @for_site @hughen_starkweather @rosanna.xia @amoore5272 @goldengatenps. i love me a big big ocean and a tiny druid door.
today we had a blast competing as HER AND HER AND HER! 🚀 jenny and lynsay are two of my college roommates and best friends; we made a relay and raced in the albany community triathlon, which raises money for the middle and high school athletics prog
did a pretty life-affirming thing in the desert this weekend: the remembrance run, led by @ku_stevens and family.☀️ being a part of this collective body as it moved through the high desert fifty miles from the yerington paiute reservation to the stew
it’s been a rough week already but time in the water helps so much. a handful of waves, people i love to see, that light, and a few kind words go a long way to restoring me to a version of myself that can handle hard things with grace. a friend
last stop: hong kong.✨ so glad to get to be with my father in person again. so glad for my kids to spend a little time getting to know their gunggung in all his (weird, wonderful) glory. so glad to get to be my cantonese self in a cantonese place, ea

 💙 I made a playlist for WHY WE SWIM! Listen here. 💙