re: Have you ever had something happen to you that happens all the time?

This thread reminds me of the time you asked me what was the most popular kind of fire. After we discussed stove fires and forest fires and all different types of fires for what felt like hours, you asked me what the word popular meant.

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This thread reminds me of the time you asked me what was the most popular kind of fire. After we discussed stove fires and forest fires and all different types of fires for what felt like hours, you asked me what the word popular meant.

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That actually sounds like a fun thread.

I’d have to say campfire.

There’s something primal about the campfire.
People gatherered around its fiery caress, the dark of the forest closing in from all sides, dispelled only by the flickering firelight. All the horrors of the night kept at bay by the same flames that warmed our ancestors. The same tall tales told, with a twist here and there. Old men making the beast they fought as younger men larger than life, and young men, unblooded, drinking it all in, dreaming of their first hunt.
Women braiding the hair of the girls, suckling babes at their breasts while meat sizzled over the fire.

It was fire that brought us out of the darkness, that elevated us from mere beasts scrabbling from the shadows. Fire that gave us warmth to keep the chill of icy winds from our backs.

It’s mystical, fire. The Promethean gift that birthed the storyteller; that finally allowed us to become truly human.

And so even now we can sit around the fire and stare into those same undulating flames, and what peers back from the conflagration is our history, our story. The primal present of the gods which we now summon lackadaisically, magic from our fingers.

We are birthed from fire, we shall be consumed by fire, and from the ashes our progeny shall rise again in the warmth of its embrace.

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I like to picture fred lathering himself up with butter and taking a steaming hot bath and pretending he’s a lobster

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It's Fred, so more like a plump turkey