i am so excited… to come home to the sea and to come home to the sea in an amazing, steroid-rich confluence of events… celebrating 999 days of an every day practice of purification along with continuing taking actions for World Water Day on the annual Clean the Beach Day and participating in our 12th Whalewatching and new this year… March for Our Lives…

so, today we fly on the wings of celestial sea eagle to be lifted like a prayer and to be one long emanation and incantation of lovingkindness…

Eagle Poem

To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River.  Circles in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon, within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.

~ Joy Harjo ~

traveling this pilgrimage through the exterior landscape brings one deeper and deeper into the interior, a coming home to the heart where it becomes clearer and clearer moment by moment that we are always being led…