return trip on the odyssey voyage requires waiting for conditions to settle giving so much time for continuous loop of thank yous and blessing the space from coast to coast… radical joy is arriving at the blissness blue moon lodge fourteen hours after departing our ocean view retreat and seeing the most beautiful waxing half moon illuminating the northwest sky… thanks to all my relations for walking home with me and most especially to Juliette and Geoff for the heavy lifting on this 5000+ mile pilgrimage which is like dark chocolate… bittersweet and delicious, reunion and farewell, moving and still, flooding and emptying, high tides and low, ebb and flow in rhythm with the moon…