John decided on 'Ignis fatuus'.
Emily Dickinson says -
'Better an ignis fatuus than no belief at all.'
Who is 'foolish' and who is 'fire' we were asked. John immediately claimed to have the element of 'fire'. There is no question but that I am 'foolish' - why else travel with a 'will o' wisp' like John.
At Wedza, in Zimbabwe - a place you can only reach the 'day-after-tomorrow'- the vlei would light with greenish marsh fires on bitter winter nights and the indentured labourers tending the tobacco barns would run from the night spirits.
So here we are 'foolish fires' - lasting for a brief spell in the night.
Let us hope we tread lightly on the earth and do no great or permament damage to it.
