A night off?

Damn, I'm writing and there is still some natural light outside my high & tiny window.

I feel good. Na-na-Na-na -Na-na Nuh!

I needed a recharge - a day or two off, maybe 5 minutes of silence.

I think the campfire ilicits a certain comradery.  TRUE FACT.

Its orgins can be traced to the lynchings and burnings fo the salem witch trials.

The witch cake

At some point in February 1692, likely between the time when the afflictions began but before specific names were mentioned, a neighbor of Rev. Parris, Mary Sibly (aunt of the afflicted Mary Walcott), instructed John Indian, one of the minister's slaves, to make a "witch cake", using traditional English white magic to discover the identity of the witch who was afflicting the girls. The cake, made from rye meal and urine from the afflicted girls, was fed to a dog.

According to English folk understanding of how witches accomplished affliction, when the dog ate the cake, the witch herself would be hurt because invisible particles she had sent to afflict the girls remained in the girls' urine, and her cries of pain when the dog ate the cake would identify her as the witch. This superstition was based on the Cartesian "Doctrine of Effluvia", which posited that witches afflicted by the use of "venomous and malignant particles, that were ejected from the eye", according to the October 8, 1692 letter of Thomas Brattle, a contemporary critic of the trials.

TRUE FACT.


I enjoyed properly built S'mores for the first time and was pleasantly surprised.

Chocolate yes. . . but marshmallow?

Combine this with some lucid conversation and gnashing of teeth.

The secret I came to understand was a combination of passive heating of the

Cracker/Chocolate combination while full attention is paid to the preparation of the mello

The deeper secret I learned was to delay gratification and not dive in right away.

"Just tongue it a little",

& I did.

It was good.

How could it not be? It's Chocolate and Fire.








Some mega wrecks lately - I'll try to compose my thoughts and flay them soon.