Matrix for Choosing Good Tinder for backcountry firebuilding: Above the ground / on the ground // No overhead protection / Overhead protection. See also a graph for adding fuel.
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Via mhsteger, a few of Sydney Smith’s prescriptions for low spirits, from a February, 1820 letter to Lady Georgiana Morpeth:
6th. See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you.
7th. And of those acquaintances who amuse you.
11th. Don’t expect too much from human life—a sorry business at the best.
14th. Be as much as you can in the open air without fatigue.
15th. Make the room where you commonly sit gay and pleasant.
17th. Don’t be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice.
18th. Keep good blazing fires.
The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. Photographer unknown.
Mark Larson 