My Fire

Got up early. Went to bed too early – today I'm staying up all day; right taking a nap – put on some shoes and coat and headed out to Starbucks. Ate breakfast and some coffee took a walk to the point and back. Not yet daylight that close and now have made a fire. A shoddy fire the balance of the wood is not – or did not -cooperate. It's dwindling before it ever really raged. I don't think I was ever particularly taught how to make a fire. I've always just done what i've seen others do. My approach – though not this morning – is to pile mounds and mounds of paper and keep shoving it in the cracks as the wood needs more fuel. my approach is to skip the delicate part – balancing the wood, creating an upward pathway for the oxygen, discrete and pointed burst of carbon dioxide – but not this morning. I took my time and it is no longer dwindling