an amazing pilgrimage of confluence… flowing with my trusty co-pilgrim and daughter and always Beloved, in 33 hours we travel 222 miles blessing the waters, who always bless us, with 11 ceremonies… we’ve joined in Oregon’s annual whale watch ten times; this year is the first in our nine years of the confluence of whale watching and blessing the waters day… a whale watching pilgrimage all the more sacred with our returning to the last destination of our very first whalewatching adventure, the place of much re-joy-sing for the band of explorers guided by Sacagawea some 211 years earlier, a journey called for by ancestor, Thomas Jefferson who attempted to send expedition parties twice before to reach the Pacific Ocean… the third time’s the charm as the Lewis and Clark expedition experience the thrill of seeing the majestic ocean… by the time we arrive home, i feel like i’ve literally traveled from sea to shining sea so complete the retracing of the journey through national and state parks’ and  Confluence Project’s beautiful installations… we enter so fully into the experience that we are on that perilous expedition of 211 years ago and it is the first moment of beholding the Pacific…

thousandfold thanks, Beloved, for always flowing with us, flowing through us, flowing us home in this moment, this beautiful moment…