'Because a fire was in my head'

Human nature remains unaltered, unchanging, a constant in a world of shifting sands, different times.  We are born, we grow up, and we go to school, to college and eventually to work.  We strive to make sense of our world, to make our mark, to move on, to start our own families, to pass on our stories, our heritage - and eventually we die. Since time immemrial, another constant in all our lives, whether we grow up in the 21st century or the fifth century, truly alive and not just merely existing - and we have used story as a vital staple ingredient in the recipe for soulful survival.