2014 … Tending the Fires
This picture shows me doing one of the things I love more than most: tending a bonfire made with dead wood (collected while clearing the Alexzanna Farms forest of storm debris) …
“Fire is vibrantly alive. It eats everything from wood to flesh, excreting the waste as ash, and it breathes air just like a human, taking in oxygen and emitting carbon. Fire grows, and as it spreads, it creates new fires that spread out and make new fires of their own. Fire drinks gasoline and excretes cinders, it fights for territory, it loves and hates. Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines, I think that fire is more alive than we are –brighter, hotter, more viable, even more virtuous. Fire doesn’t simply settle; fire doesn’t merely tolerate; fire doesn’t only ‘get by.’ Fire does. Fire is” ~ inspired by Dan Wells
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