Whale Watching, Part Deux aka Rainbow Journeying
I love rainbows and i’ve been a professional rainbow chaser for a little over one turn around the sun. When venturing out on this year’s whale watching journey, i had no idea, none, that it would be a rainbow chasing marathon from start to finish and in between… I couldn’t catch the rainbows in the sky, i am able to share the rainbow found in seafoam on the beach and here are a couple of pictures of the glorious setting sun…
Woo Hoo! Today is our 8th Annual Whale Watching Pilgrimage and it is the best ever!! Leave Portalandia early in the pouring down rain that accompanies us through the Coastal Range and affords us the opportunity to enjoy 4 rainbows!! Sop in to refresh at a place everyone must visit – the Otis Cafe in Otis, Oregon which i’ve renamed Stillness – it is for sale…
Hints of sunshine portend an end to the rain?
Heading towards Oceanside, here is some of the flowing beautyway encountered today…
March winds are still roaring, stirring the Pacific dramatically, the sun and other pilgrims are coming out to immerse in the beauty…
Spring is coming to Oceanside, one of my favorite pilgrimage sites – what a joy to see the greening of this sacred space since last we walked here almost three months ago when it was Epiphany, such a glorious day of light and now it’s the 1st new moon of the beginning of the astrological year…
My heart smiles with yours as we flow on this beauty way…
On the pilgrimage today, i remember in dreamtime seeing an image with words repeatedly which i am unable to bring back into consciousness, i trust the picture and words will bloom in me as long as i devotedly tend the soil which is my practice… This reverie takes me back to the years i told the IRS i was a freelance farmer and this re-membering takes me back further to my grandmother who was a master gardener coming from people close to the earth, my beloved grandmother, a farmer of my heart…
I travel this day as a free and easy wanderer of the center wondering how the moments will unfold. Floating in the ocean of our being like on a fluffy cloud flowing through the sky, i am perfectly positioned to immerse fully in life and witness all the clouds flying by…
It is a good way to walk the path of radical simplicity, less and less attached, freer and so more open to embracing what comes and what goes like the breath coming in and going out transporting us deeper and deeper into the center of the earth where in the stillness we re-member we are one with all that is, we are love dancing in the rhythm of luminous waves…
100 Days!
On this journey, I AM being in a deeper way…
each breath through our one heart centers
each step on earth mother a kiss
each communion with sun a celebration
each reunion with moon a dance
each moment in flow
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On this road less traveled, I AM trusting more profoundly…
listening to the whispers from our one heart
aligning with cosmic wisdom
all flowing beauty
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On this pilgrimage home, I AM surrendering more completely
re-membering we are love and that’s all that we need
living from the heart in thought word and deed
flowing into great mystery
I fell in love with paths and pilgrimages as a child, i loved the annual spring ritual of watching The Wizard of Oz on tv and dancing merrily down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. March winds and turbulent energy flows are taking me back to the whirlwind that began the journey of awakening for Dorothy, for me, for you…
In the midst of the tornado, everything known and stable is deconstructed to be built anew and so we must start fresh with a child’s vision of wonder and trust as we travel the yellow brick road, the golden path, the SHERO Journey to SELF™ where we re-member, like Dorothy, that we had the power all along, we are the power, we always have the ability to come home, we are always home…
Lately, as i walk into radical simplicity on the pilgrimage, i dwell in longing for new herizons. What a blessing to spend a day mesmerized by Mt St Helen’s and Ranier, that free and easy wanderer… In this sacred space, I AM the eternal echoing through every breath, the new herizon, our belonging place…
So many moments of beauty abounding… sunshine, blue sky, majestic mountain peaks, trees stretching their limbs in graceful symmetry… beautiful moments to breathe deeply in savoring every morsel of flowing water and floating cloud and freshly baked bread… breathing in the beautyway of co-creation, birdsong, love between all my relations, life lived from the center of the ever expanding circle… resting in and reflecting on the abundance of the multiverse… dancing deep mystery…
YES, we can! We can come together as one and hold space for the healing of our waters…
Water, i love you
Water, i respect you
Water, i thank you
Waters are our memory, the vibrational field of our being, 70% of the cosmos. May we all hold our waters sacred with every breath…
