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.)