today as we make a special pilgrimage across the vast ocean of peaceful being to the magical realm of avalon, i contemplate how this journey is the journey of life, of awakening to the magic and wonder waiting on the other side of the shore as you take one small step and another and another through the storms and darkness and travails of life until in a flash, the path of heart opens and the sun, that is always shining even when hidden by clouds, pops out in all its brilliance re-minding us, re-heartening us of the astonishing light of our being that is always and forever present…