i love every summer celebrating the O-bon festival when we honor our ancestors’ journeys… i love this turn around the sun the gathering falls on harmonic convergence four days before the historical total soular eclipse beginning its path right here in Oregon arcing across the country from sea to shining sea… i love the ancestors being welcomed home and feted with joyful dance and song before these shining ones are placed as lanterns on the waters to travel back to the other shore…

i love this moment of reflecting on immortality and re-membering we are part of a vast sacred web of interconnection bridging visible with invisible realms…