“There is fire you must attend to every day. The hardest one to take care of is the one right here,” he says, tapping his finger against his chest. “Your own fire, your spirit. We all carry a piece of the sacred fire within us. We have to honour it and care for it. You are the firekeeper.*
Robin Wall Kimmerer, quoting her father Robert Wall

Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.**
Wendell Berry

We face many difficult things in life,
Thoughts and feelings and circumstances threatening tp
overcome our minds and hearts and souls;
So we learn how to be a firekeeper,
Knowing our fuel,
identifying our oxygen,
Determining our spark –
Who we are, what we have,
The thing we must do.

*Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass;
**Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything.