If we view the world around us, we exist; if we experience it, we live.

 

She was, upon reflection, the experience of a lifetime.

 

It was far beyond anything I could ever have imagined. Beginning

slowly; building ever so delicately. I could feel her pulse, steady

and rhythmic at first, then perceptibly growing in intensity. Her sighs

became louder and more frequent; more urgent. Her pulse an insistent, quickening throb. Involuntarily she began to quiver, sighing.

Moaning. Rhythmically throbbing. Was it getting warmer? The heat

radiating from within her enveloped me, penetrating to my very soul. Then suddenly, without further warning came the release she sought so

desperately from the pressure she felt inside. Uncontrollably she

heaved; exploded, in a magnificent, mind intoxicating fury only mother

nature could have orchestrated - fire and brimstone in a massive

explosion beyond anything I ever could have imagined possible. For a

moment, an eternity, she hung there; her molecules spread throughout,

and one with the universe. And then, in the fading glow, she gently,

comfortably began to subside into a peaceful calm; her energy and

tension dispelled, the pressure relieved. It was nature at her most

spectacular.

 

Eric Forsman

(Arenal Volcano, Arenal, Costa Rica as witnessed from our balcony.)