To Burn is to Love!

Know yourself, love a woman knowing yourself, or she won't have an anchor. When the rain and wind comes where will she go, are you a rock? The beard, Tom's, skate shoes, poorly fitting clothes....they don't make the man, your uniform for mediocrity conceals to pablum at the pith, no ironwood timber of a chap....! Know yourself and hopefully love will burn your iron sides leaving scorch marks, warming what you are, an anchor when the storm comes upon you both. This song makes me think about tough white cats I know and really admire for being unapologetically tough and white. Burning love, that's a Western idea, to express Love as a fire that is consuming a man's heart, inherited from Arabic religious, chivalric poetry. In the Orthodox Way, to be consumed by a fire like love for Our Loyal King is a major step in Understanding and Knowing, two key energies of the divine and the temporal....'Be like Fire'. Know yourself, be like fire, love Living, especially if you are a man and especially if you walk free under the Sun, Moon and Stars....burn brilliantly. Just some thoughts, from the imperial rental cottage, heh.