Western Washington University Western CEDAR WWU Honors Program Senior Projects WWU Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship Winter 2021 The Mountain and Me: Memories, Expressions, Reflections Corey Griffis Western Washington University Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Griffis, Corey, "The Mountain and Me: Memories, Expressions, Reflections" (2021). WWU Honors Program Senior Projects. 431. https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/431 This Project is brought to you for free and open access by the WWU Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in WWU Honors Program Senior Projects by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Note: the following is an adapted excerpt from a much larger, as-yet-unfinished book/memoir project. I began this book project as a Senior Capstone, and it ultimately extended beyond what I could complete before I graduated. I continue to work on this larger memoir; until that time, I have selected the following adapted excerpt for formal submission and archival. This adapted excerpt consists of chronologically separated chapters that are linked by place: together, they describe the important role that my experiences on Mount St. Helens have played in shaping my sense of self and perspective on life and living. The excerpts have been edited and extended in order to function more cohesively as a standalone piece, but they are still, at heart, part of a larger picture that has yet to fully take shape. It is my goal and hope that, sooner rather than later, I will be able to complete that picture and place it here as a more fully-realized creative product.