thirty-six years ago today, Mt St Helens erupted, violently sweeping away thirteen hundred feet of her height, in effect, decapitating her, disappearing Spirit Lake, desolating a once fertile landscape, delivering ash around the world and prompting a communal mourning… today, we bow to the raw power of nature and to her cycles of ebb and flow, destruction and creation, desolation and restoration, chaos and harmony and sorrow and joy which are all integral to the unfolding design of oneness…

this “after” picture, taken recently, from Harmony Point shows a restored Spirit Lake and green growth gracing the once inflamed area reminding us rebirth always follows death always follows rebirth, the eternal turning of the comic wheel, breathing in and breathing out the only constant… only love is real…

i’ll close this post with a “during” and “before” picture of the ancient wise woman, Mt St Helens towering above the life giving waters of Spirit Lake…