Forgive me for not introducing myself before now, I have been suffering from some malady which laid me low.  Poor Gwaelyan has had to sort everything out and she has done a wonderful job, my cabin looks and feels like home.  I barely remember anything of coming aboard or the ensuing days, except for an awareness of a lot of laughter and song, it is a shame I missed all the fun and games.  However,  I am sure there will be more to come.  I understand that we are docked at The Island of the Temple People.  Once I am fully recovered I shall go ashore and meet up with some old friends.

A little about myself.  At heart I am a reclusive yet I venture out into the world to find community within which to learn and to grow.   I was not at all ready to begin another journey but The Mother insisted, She said it was time and when The Mother speaks, I listen.  I was named after Morgan le Fey, the Lady Morgana , an ancient descendant of mine and with whom I have some attributes in common.  Although under the influence of  fever I have been acutely aware of the presence of those belonging to the Faerie, they have a resonance to which I am attuned.  More of that later no doubt.

As I am emerging I can see my way forward perhaps.  I am an impetuous, stubborn creature, born a child of the fire, I do not wait and always think I know best.  I started out on this journey with reluctance in my heart, my whole being already consumed by another only-just-begun journey of the inner variety but as the fog in my brain clears I can see that they are interlinked, conjoined, one with the other.  Of course, in my rashness I set up two journals, two very separate journals – what do I do now?

I am very far from new to this earth and I frustrate myself in that I do not wait, do not trust somehow.  However, in the rashness often the unexpected grows and it could be it was time for a new start – rather a cyclic returning to roots and from those roots this new beginning.  The Mother once said to me that I compartmentalise everything – I shrugged as I saw nothing amiss in that.  Now I am beginning to see how it can hinder.  I have compartmentalised these two journeys which are, in fact, one and the same.  Well I will find a way.  For now I am here in my cabin recuperating still and I am delighted at last to have joined  you all wholly – in spirit at least, the body will follow.

M.