Pele Pours Her Heart Out In Puna. In Hawaii, Destruction is Creation

Pele the creator of the island of Hawaii, just lets her feelings flow

In the Puna district of Hawaii, Pele is pouring fire into the forests, while people flee. Just off the thundering coast of Kapoho, where the 1960 eruption wiped out the entire village by that name.

The gods must be crazy, right? Not necessarily, perhaps the gods we invent are instead a reflection of ourselves.

There are times in great sorrow and loss, when every choice, good, or bad, rolls your life around like lava to the sea. There are also times when the drowned seed of a dream, a family, a purpose, or an actual flower bursts forth from what you thought was gone forever.

We don’t thank it nearly enough, but the creators beyond our understanding, such as the glowering hot passion of Pele, expresses power that points a cinder black finger toward death. It is the dying, the breaking, the loss, clearing and cleansing that makes way for birth. That birth begins what we call life.

After doing this a few times, Pele got Paradise. After people came here, Paradise got paved. But Pele has never stopped her red hot lover and fierce mother tendencies that keep creating life in places where we could not do it alone.

Life. Death. Add consciousness. More life. More death. Now those alive can choose because they have been handed the enchanted O’O (digging stick) that drills and kills…