True retreat begins long before you enter a cloistered space in time for any kind of spiritual practice. The spiritual path is a long journey. Your whole life, the sum of all your choices and perceptions, is already a spiritual path. What you bring, or perhaps most importantly, what you do not bring with you into retreat has a strong bearing on the outcome. The life preliminaries for each person are different, but there are common threads, primarily what brings you to a generous trusting openness. Robert and Rachel Olds offer portions of their journeys to encourage recognition and revaluing of the glowing threads of openness already woven through your own life. Water Drawn Before Sunrise is a portrait of two lives with the same purpose that came together, a dialogue about living with the Earth on a spiritual journey, composed of moments along their way, moments of inner radiance bursting forth, and moments in between, pushing, pulling, and prodding them to remember luminous awareness, vast and fluid.