Dead Trees and Flint

Fiorella is obsessed with dead trees and flint.

She never realized how many dead trees there are just standing around until she and Husband cut their own firewood. Now the trees stand out like sore thumbs everywhere she looks. How she longs for a pick-up truck so she and Husband can stop by the roadside late at night and saw down some of those trees, or pick up those broken branches waiting to be hauled away to a landfill. She just cannot stand the waste.

Fio also cannot stand to see flint wasted. She has a whole shelf of pieces she found on her driveway. And just last week, she pulled two really nice pieces out of the gravel fill at HEB. Today she discovered about six flints in the gravel fill at her father's nursing home.

Flint and dead wood. Together, they make fire, and fire makes the universe.