Secret #17 Fire

For those of you who don't know, my family loves to have a huge bonfire every year during burn season in our city. We collect abandoned Christmas trees after the holidays and then burn them in the spring. I love to stare into that gigantic fire, it's mesmerizing. And when these trees go up in a burst of flames it is wild. I can see why in olden time people thought that fire was a god. It can seem alive as it chooses it's path to burn and consumes everything it touches. It's performing a dance of destruction. I feel like the whole of the universe is put into perspective as you stare into a fire. Nothing else matters, everything disappears, and I loose myself as the fire dances.