Tag: Fire
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Burning Questions and Political Facades
Against the ravenous tiger of fire, we give the rich a rifle and the poor a feather. In 1971, an engineer at Ford motors called Lou Tubben invited all of his fellow company engineers to a presentation he’d put together about gas-tanks. Driving around with a whole lot of highly flammable liquid is, when you…
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Prayer for Those Who Burn
Burning Men To those obsessed with fire to the book-burners and plane hijackers the flag-lighters and napalm sprayers: you are no children of the gods. Your father is not Prometheus your gift is not the divine spark lifted from behind mean Zeus’ back fanned out on the earth in good cooked food and light in…
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Bring Your Own Fire | Parables | Hell
Good to see that Pete’s iPhone app is out now – and contains a collection of parables and other writing, including the competition-winning re-working of ‘Footprints‘ that I wrote last year. He’ll be adding to it over time, so well worth getting in early and picking up a copy now. Stories are vital to all…