My mother swam here starting at the steps every morning of the year, except for those rare days when thebr/ Santa Ana winds created big swells coming into the usually calm harbor. She was a hardy one.br/ br/ ldquo;We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.rdquo;br/ Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist (384ndash;322 BC)rdquo;