Sun-Moon Trip 2025

Days 16-18 I visited a woman who was a huge part of my childhood. When I became a Christian that was part of what made us lose touch among other things. But about a year ago I learned that she had become a deacon in the Episcopalian Church and we have been having weekly Zoom calls since. Our friendship is back and we have quite a bit in common. Corinne had surgery not long ago and so we didn’t do much sight seeing but we did lots of talking. Corinne’s dog Marta and cat Ducky. On Friday we visited Corinne’s church and went to a wonderful Good Friday service conducted both in Spanish and English.

Let me start with a brief anecdote about yesterday. As I was sitting in the shade and bemoaning my failure to bring a bathing suit, a tiny flock of birds swooped in. I didn’t recognize them but they were brown birds between sparrow and robin size and they had distinctive stripes on their head and neck. They strutted around rather officiously and one came right under my legs. Alas I didn’t recognize not manage to get a picture before they all took off, but I’m grateful. It was a special moment. i woke up with a new song in my mind and heart which was lovely. Lovely for me to have a song. Others will have to decide on its merit or lack thereof later. But it is always special for me to have a song growing. A gift from God. I’ll share it when i have time on the internet which will probably be tomorrow. Texas is BIG. Not that any of you didn’t know that. I was driving through southern Texas on Rte 10. A lot of it was very barren looking land. I was glad to see some very large windmill insta...

This is what I woke up to on the morning. I slept myself out which felt very luxurious. At a Texas rest area I found both a very luxurious succulent of some sort and these signs. (But saw no snakes). I am at Balmorrhea State Park in Texas where they have built a huge swimming pool around natural springs. Only a fool like me would forget to bring a bathing suit to this place. The campground was pretty bleak but the shady area near the pool was nice. And I’ve had some lovely conversations today, one with a Messianic Jew and one with some folks thinking about building a sweat lodge (but not very conversant with the prayers in a lodge) im tired and peaceful after the dance. Woke up with a melody but not a fully formed song in my heart. love and blessings to all.

I made it. So did everybody else. It was an incredibly hot dance, and they gave us time to rest in a cool place, and “medicinal treats” from the chief—glasses of liquid to drink. I won’t share much, because the spiritual stuff needs time to ripen, and the trivial things “waste the energy of the dance”. Thanks for your prayers. Thanks for those who drank water. It was much appreciated. And now I am sitting in a traffic jam hoping it won’t end up delaying me more than 2 hours. I did a lousy job of taking photos. So here is one of me after the dance stuck in traffic Very shortly after I published this post the jam broke. Judging from the wreckage it really was a terrible accident. But I got where I was going 1/2 hour before their restaurant closed. And was able to sort things out so that I got things that needed to be in the camper on and things that didn’t need to be there out.

It’s really early in the morning as I write this. This is the first day of the dance itself. We won’t start the dance proper, and the fast itself until sometime late this afternoon. We will be arriving onsite between 9 and 10 this morning and we will be busy all day getting ready, preparing the site and people for what is coming. I hope to arrive onsite the early side of that Greeting old friends, meeting new ones. I’ll try to take some photos but probably won’t manage to post them until after the dance There is a lot to do today Among other things and all the preparation onsite, John and I have to get the camper prepared for him to stay in during the dance Right now it is chockablock full of my gear because we had to empty the car for the luggage of folks we were picking up at the airport The weather is going to be really hot. Predictions for highs are today 96, Friday 100, Saturday 99, Sunday 91. Pray for cooling breezes, and maybe that the predictions will not quite be met. ...

This is the day before the dance. It’s really close now. I left New Mexico at about 6 am. It’s only a little over a three hour drive but I stopped on the way to get most of my luggage out of my car and make it good for passengers. Then I picked up my sister Elizabeth at the airport with her support person Mandy. We headed for the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum which is sort of a cross between a zoo and an arboretum. Right now they are hosting a bunch of animatronic dinosaurs as well as the natural animals. Mandy and Liz. Liz trying on bat ears. Besides ocotillo most of the desert plants are not yet in bloom though many were at the museum Ocatillo plant. Dinner with my sister Liz, my son John, my sister’s support person Mandy.