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Blown away: Hawaii's volcanoes covered in beauty.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Jewels among the rubble.
We were down on our hands and knees in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, scraping among lava rubble to find Pele's tears _ glossy, smooth droplets named for the Hawaiian fire goddess whose bad moods are the mythological explanation for Hawaiian volcanic eruptions.
I gazed reverently at the glossy droplet in my hand.
My 19-year-old son held out his hand with his find.
"Look, Pele's hair," he said. A long glassy filament of lava lay on his palm.
The delicacy of that fragile strand of lava formed when lava stretched like taffy and instantly cooled in the air. Imagine.
And imagine an eruption that can blast out a village while crafting such delicate strands.
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