With the origin stories of Bob Dylan playing at the movies and “Dexter” streaming from TV, the spectacular new eruption of Halemaumau Crater got me pondering my own professional origins on the Big Island.

What had been low-level lava flows since Thursday morning became more vigorous fountaining Friday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory.

Lava is erupting from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano for the second straight day. The eruption has stayed within Kilauea’s summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and no homes are threatened.