Fire. I’ll take it over a screen any night. How much of what we look for in the blue light of screens is actually in the flickering warmth of a fireside circle? A lot I’d guess. It’s where our oral traditions evolved - and arguably an accompanying awareness of our place in time and community. Connection to nature - human and other - and the primal elements of being Craig Child’s essay “Magic Circle of Light” in the latest @adventurejournal is a rich personal tale of how he, and the collective we, evolved alongside fire. Thanks @journalizard and @stevecasimiro for allowing for a few of my fireside images/memories in accompany