What is one true thing?
Auch auf Deutsch — Das notwendige FeuerSome passages of a life cannot be gone around. They have to be gone through.
The Fire Community is an interlinked body of books — a philosophy, novels, books for children, healing companions, and songs — held together by one understanding: that we do not manage the hardest passages of a life, we move through them, and come out the other side whole and scarred and lit. Each book stands on its own. Together they span a whole human life.
When the words get in the way,
go and look at water.
It will not tell you the fire is good. It will not hurry you. It does one thing: it walks beside you, names what is burning, and does not look away.
Nine fires, from what is burning to what the fire makes — read slowly, a page at a time, or opened on a hard night to whatever page it falls to. Made to be returned to, however long the way takes.
A digital edition — pay what you want. Suggested €4, or take it for nothing. No one in the fire is turned away.
One world, many doors — and not all of them open onto the same fire. From a four-year-old's first feelings to a philosophy of grief, the work spans a whole human life. Each book has its own light. Scroll on, and you'll feel them change.
The fire lived out in particular lives — in the intentional community in the Slieve Aughty mountains, through the turning of a year and a season's work.
The gentlest doorway into the whole work. Eight tender picture books for small children — naming feelings, weathering grief, and learning they are seen and never too much.
I Feel Everything · One True Thing · No Is a Whole Sentence · and five more
Six interwoven stories for older children — each child meeting a fire of their own, and the one true question, in the small school above the lake.
For the empath, the parent, the couple, the worker, the elder, the young person, and the bereaved. Each names a particular fire honestly, then offers something you can actually do.
The warmth of people gathered around a fire — songs of the community, opening with how the fire was first kept, and teaching you to make your own.
Not a translation, but a re-rooting — the same fire, carried to Füssen and the river Lech: the turquoise water that carries the ground mountain, the still Forggensee of memory, the climb of the Kalvarienberg where the two directions meet.
Eine digitale Ausgabe — bezahle, was du möchtest. Vorgeschlagen 4 €, oder nimm es umsonst.
You do not only walk through the fire.
In time, you gather around one.
Come through the long way, and there is a hearth at the end of it — the fire you tend on purpose, and keep, and sit beside with others. Whole, and scarred, and lit.
The Companion is here. Leave your email and you'll hear, now and then, as the other books are born — the novels, the children's books, the healing companions, and the rest.
Thank you — you'll hear when the fire is lit.
No noise. Only word of a new book, when there is one.