For years, my emotions have been like a silent, simmering, volcano with all the feelings of sadness, depression, grief, betrayal, pain, and victim-hood all just churning around together. Add a touch of anger, and my volcano exploded, covering everyone in my path with hot molten lava. We have been taught by society that it is "not nice" to express your anger. People won't like you if you express anger.
Sometimes that is true. I am finally purging and it is like a volcano has erupted and is destroying everything I knew. I am alienating people left and right, destroying our relationships….but I have hope…New things will grow, they already are with all the love and support and the wonderful people who humble me by telling me how I have inspired them in their own struggles.
I found this in an article called Life Returns to the Landscape:
After a volcanic eruption, plants re-establish themselves in stages. The plants in each stage form a community and make the environment more hospitable for other plants. Over centuries these plant communities succeed one another until a climax community is reached. The climax community may continue for a long time without striking stages until an environmental change creates opportunities for different organisms.
On cold lava flows, lichens are among the first pioneers. They can live without soil, clinging directly to the rocks. They begin to break the rocks down. They grow slowly, and just dry out and wait if there is no rain.
Meanwhile, the wind blows dust and sand into the cracks between the stones. Very slowly, tiny pockets of soil begin to form. Wind blown seeds fall into these cracks, germinate, and begin the long process of making a garden out of the volcanic wasteland.
I am growing a new garden with all of you!
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