An organism by definition of the oxford dictionary is any living system. Fire, by that definition, is vibrantly alive. It eats everything from wood to flesh, and it breaths air just like a human, converting oxygen to carbon. Fire grows, and as it spreads it creates new fires that spread out and make new fires of their own. Fire drinks gasoline and excretes cinders; it fights for territory; it loves and hates. Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines I think that fire alive than we are brighter, hotter, more sure of itself and where it wants to go. Fire doesn’t settle; fire doesn’t tolerate; fire doesn’t ‘get by’. Fire does. Fire is.