Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace
I came across someone on a site I follow who's very much just themselves in the face of a lot of potential blowback. Some people are just kind of radiant that way, and I admire them. Some of my favorite people are the difficult ones who can neither help themselves nor want to; especially the ones who are that odd combination of cussedness and prickly boundaries. They're usually originals of some kind. I remember when what was going on inside me was in pretty close sync with what was going on outside, and it has, for better or worse, had an...