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Show BLAZING TIMES - AUGUST 1993 - 3 Fire: Friend and Foe It is hard to imagine anything that fills humans with more ambivalence and double-mindedness than the LAST CHANCE TO FILE FOR CV OFFICES relationship we have with FIRE. Fire inspires feelings of comfort, The November 2,1993 election is coming up, and there are three Town Council seats open. Offices to be filled are Mayor and two council members. All are four-year seats. Residents interested in running for any of the available offices must file a Declaratibn of Candidacy with the Town Clerk, Lois Wagstaff. Filing deadline ls August 24, and you must make an appointment to file (call Lois at 2595077 NOW). To quality, a candidate must be (1) a US citizen, (2) at least 18 years old, (3) a resident of the Town of Castle Valley for at least 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the date of the election, (4) a registered voter of the Town of Castle Valley. security, and nostalgia. And feelings of fear turned into terror. We use fire to prepare food and cauterize wounds. When a mind is disciplined and honed, insight and critical thinking have been called the Fiery Chariot of True Thought (Blake) We associate the heart aflame with being in love. The consumau'on of sacred sexual pleasure is described as the fire of Eros. Highest longings of a spiritual sort are often associated with fire. “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” (Luke [I], 16) “The truth concealed from the priest and revealed to the warrior: that this world always was and is and shall be ever-living fire.” (Chandogya Upanishad) “To be aflame at every point. To be alive is to On occasion I have teased fire. How big can this bonfire really get? be burning)” (Bhagavad Gita) How peacefme did the mind exploded against the night sky. Hollywood movies Backdraft and wander as we gazed through the dancing sparks into the flowing coals of Towering Inferno bear testimony to our Friends of mine set themselves to the willingness to pay to be haunted by the grotesqueness 0f unmanageable fires. barefoot challenge of walking _ across a . bed of hot, glowmg coals. Given the hearth or campfire and let the imagina- tion feast on the drama of mysterious Our deepest and most profound July we have passed through, I hope shadows. Candles on the birthday cake fears are likewise symbolized by fire: there will be no bonfires or firewalks in or glowing between lovers celebrating “And GOd gave Noah the rainbow sign. Castle V_8HCY- N9l 11111685 we want 10 an anniversary supper, the fucker of a No more water, The Fire next ume.” risk a micro-versron of apocalypse Welcome Home lamp set in the We remember the Kent“? now. window, these warm our hearts and Khrushchev stand-off m 1962 when inspire us with joy. But our fondness does not only reside in fire’s gentle aspect. Fourth of some of us thought there might not be a world come next mormng. The final conflagration and the world is brought or abuse it, fire is one of the gifts of creation. It is to be understood, respected, and honored for HS place and July at Ken’s Lake found many in rapt to an end in an explosive holocaust of power In the natural world. awe as cannonades of fireworks bursting flames. . . . . . Play With it or pray With it, use ll —D0novan Roberts CASTLE CANYON NURSERY Plants for the Canyon Country Landscaping Design Drip Irrigation Headquarters Sprinkler Irrigation Parts Automatic Irrigation Parts System Design 8! Consultation 259-8274 |
