A flamboyant tree is beautiful red
tree when in full bloom, a fire tree in English or arbol de fuego, a tree of fire. The name conveys a deep sense of a
paradox; it seems a conflict to think of setting comfortably in the cool dense shade of tree of fire. Thus,
as a blog site, FIRETREE serves as a metaphor for the airing of cultural conflicts
we see everyday, a never-ending quest for peace and comfort from the anguish of
millions of harsh years of evolution. The conflict between our interlocking biology
and our humanization is something we cannot shed so Firetree is my way of
turning and facing it, often at the expense of being politically incorrect. None
of this lends its self to headlines or off color language, which I try to
address rationally.
Firetree blog site covers a broad
sweep of topics including but not limited to biology, religion, politics, and business
from a personal perspective. I grew up in a loving family residing in an
immigrant neighborhood during a horrible war to end all wars, but didn’t,
served as a sailor in a war without physical or mental hurt, and witnessed
several more wars from the side lines including a civil war where I dealt with
war refugees coming to my door asking for work. In addition, I became
intimately acquainted with tumultuous social upheaval in the context of teaching
in two different dictatorships and witnessed as a citizen the Untied States and
evolution of colonial and then independent Belize, Central America.
Firetree references an entire
century. My father was born in 19th century and I will die during
the 21st century. My grandmother told of encounters with Native
Americans on the prairies of the South Dakota Territories in their final stages
of the dance of death with immigrants. A little more than 100 years later, I
saw a similar but bloodless situation developing between Mayan and immigrants
to Belize. I saw an island paradise change from a marginal fishing economy to
an inflated tourist economy. All of this has an impact on the content of
firetreepub.blogspot.com, but no one can predict when, where, or how but it
does.
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