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First Voyage

— Dedicated to all who journeyed to love with the Humpback Whales and to the members of the International Whaling Commission —

It is a spiritual universe. And together we slipped away under a starry sky from the continents and islands we knew, to meet ourselves — in the light of a dazzling dawn.

With a deep calm upwelling beneath us, we cast our faith and love upon the waters to meet ourselves — for the first time. In the knowledge that healing is possible, and that miracles can and do occur — we swam.

Grace washed over us with every sigh of whale-spout, heave of water and sleek arch of humpback — in a glittering sea.

Was it because we couldn't touch the whales, that we were able to touch each other? Or because the whales touched us so deeply, that we had the courage to reach out?

From mother to calf to me, a song of forgiveness pases from heart to heart to heart, until trust replaces fear—every time.

14 April 2001
Susan L. Grimshaw