Fire is a two-faced friend and currently out of control

With the wildfires still raging across Southern Georgia it seems like now might be a good time to talk about fire.

A frequent subject of song, poetry, prose and cinema, fire provides fodder for the world of ideas and writers like myself, but it also consumes fodder in the real world.

Man has always had a difficult relationship with fire. You might even say it is something of a Frankenstein scenario. Like Dr. Frankenstein and the power to give life, primitive man saw fire as something occurring in the natural world and sought to control and harness it.