There will always be fires.

It is a natural part of life's landscape. It is the nature of refinement - it requires heat to reconstruct temperament. Just breaking down the word temperament in a very rudimentary way shows its connection to heat - temp... temperature. Fire shapes everything it touches; every conversation, every relationship, every form of artistic expression, every physical element. And what becomes of this experience for each thing often, though not always, breaks into two different branches of results - destruction or strengthening. We can look at every experience in life through this paradigm, if we feel so inclined, to learn through the reflection of it which direction our experience fell or how it may have gone through both branches simultaneously. The self-assessed review of these things is not a habit I undertake nearly enough. Maybe this is a reminder to myself that I need to pay better attention to the fires, as well as the effects of it, with much more regularity.