Keeper Of The Flame

For more than three decades, two neighbor familiesthe Garners and
Smithshave sat together around backyard bonfi res. As the embers bank
down from a roaring blaze, we talk and laugh freely. Sip a little wine and
sometimes glimpse a few of life's infi nite angles. We're drawn to the stars
with the wonder of searchers who hold something larger than ourselves
in awe. And we instinctively pull back from a superheated pace and the
bondage of time that drives our loud, brash world.
Keeper of the Flame touches on the ritual and meaning of our fi res, the
work we do and the play we use to refresh, the friendship and beauty that
serve as the unbought grace of life, and many more subjects that have
burned brightly during our fi rewatches. Since we've never pretended to
have all the answers, this book also invokes the wisdom of more than 80
writers, poets and thinkers to lend insights into our physical and spiritual
journeys.