"Only men can make a fire."

The wisdom that this child possesses at his tender age is simply astounding. Take a boy into the wilderness, unencumbered by silly civil rationalizations and a natural understanding of gender role responsibilities just seems to kick in.

Oh, while on the subject of fires, who thought it was a good idea to jack kids up on a pure sugar jag via roasted marshmallows around what amounts to be about thee most dangerous of wilderness pastimes just prior to bedtime? Everybody survived, but the desired primal and pagan meditative communal experience one may seek from softly glowing embers licked by hypnotic tongues of fire was definitely not achieved. Maybe next decade...