Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 153 – 5/18/2022

so much to share in this moment of eternity; however, an explosion forty-two years ago today takes precedence when Mt St Helens exploded shooting ash 80,000 feet into the air and 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, let’s 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 and an echo reverberating in this present now moment as we witness our old world in collapse and graphicly see the re-newal that follows…

this “after” picture, taken recently, from Harmony Point, shows a restored Spirit Lake with 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 being that only love is real…

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

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 153 – 5/18/2021

so much to share in this moment of eternity; however, an explosion forty-one years ago today takes precedence when Mt St Helens exploded shooting ash 80,000 feet into the air and 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, let’s 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 and an echo reverberating in this present now moment as we witness our old world in collapse and graphicly see the re-newal that follows…

this “after” picture, taken recently, from Harmony Point, shows a restored Spirit Lake with 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 being that only love is real…

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

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 154 – 5/18/2020

tonight, i intended on writing about something else and then i real-eyesed forty years ago today, Mt St Helens exploded shooting ash 80,000 feet into the air and 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 and an echo reverberating now as we witness our old world in collapse…

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 being only love is real…

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

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 153 – 5/18/2017

Named Miraculous May 18 Mt Rainier July B'day Pilgrimage 077 Spirit Lake.

thirty-seven years ago today, Mt St Helens exploded shooting ash 80,000 feet into the air and 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 “before” and “during” picture of the ancient wise woman, Mt St Helens towering above the life giving waters of Spirit Lake…

Mt St Helens before-and-after2, NW.edu, 2008

 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 154 – 5/18/2016

Named Mysterious May 18 Mt Rainier July B'day Pilgrimage 077 Spirit Lake.

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…

Mt St Helens before-and-after2, NW.edu, 2008