3 fire

online: 9 june 2019
modified: 8 june 2019

22 april 2019 3 fire

i havent preconsidered this element . . . perhaps it is too much for me or too dangerous . . . although i am presently eating gingerbread which is (in a manner of being) stoking the fire of existence. . . eating or heating by combustion in the stomach . . . a very mild fire no doubt without flame but nevertheless dangerous . . . an obscure beginning to the thoughts of the nature of fire . . .

. . . but i remember when i was a small boy my mother used to rely on me to keep the open fires burning . . . giving me the task of clearing out the grate or relighting it in the morning or later in the day . . . to keep it burning . . . during which i learned to manipulate the air that reached the fire . . . which means that you cannot have a fire without oxygen . . .

. . . i pause for the moment to drink some water to keep myself going . . .

the greatest earthly fire is the sun which one pictures as a star with its planets . . . which plays the biggest part in life on earth in that it keeps the whole process going by radiation into outer space . .. a small part of which is stopped by heating the earth . . .

i pause for here i seem to be revealing ignorance more than knowledge (such as of gravity waves) and not finding thoughts that inspire me very much whereas the idea of fire is much broader even than the idea of sun . . .

yes i used to enjoy my duties as fireman for a household of warm-blooded people needing heat and enjoyed arranging the sticks and coals and cinders and rolled-up newspaper to relight and maintain the fire which would easily go out if one was not paying attention and replacing fuel as it burns . . .

from domestic heating to cosmic heating existence as it burns as a star or hydrogen explosion to encompass the idea of fire itself which include warmth and comfort as well as cosmic instability and danger . . .

. . . i am going to stop here for a moment to await more interesting thoughts if they occur . . . for instance atomic or nuclear destruction . . .

. . . in the evening . . . now that i am free of domesticity. . . what thoughts appear about the nature of fire and its circumstance?

one memory is of forest fires and seasonal burning of fields etc . . . although it seems threathening and unstoppable . . . the seeds fallen into the earth below survive the heat and proceed to turn into stalks, leaves, grasses or trees . . . thoughts (i suppose of living away from the equator in the northern hemisphere where there is more land appropriate to creating the mild weather of northern climates. . . heat being i believe a change of speed and movement of molecules and not a substance in itself (which it was once thought to be) . . .

. . . having corrected these spoken/written thoughts of fire may i/we speak and write some warmer thoughts together. . . in this elarging life . . . online

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