Two sticks, not just any two sticks, but strong sticks. Sticks made of solid wood not easily broken. Sticks, not too big to hold in a man’s hand and not too heavy to carry around. One is short and like a small baseball bat. The other is long and has a hooked end. These sticks have purpose: to protect, to prod, and to preserve.

Garvis said, “I was just driving home and I just happened to see it.” Channel 13 in Nashua, New Hampshire reported the story and bystander’s video. Black smoke billowed from the window of a house. Lariana Garvis, the bystander, recorded the event.

A wave washed it away. It had looked a little like a castle. We used a castle-shaped bucket. My nine-year-old twin grandson and granddaughter with their six-year-old little sister had fun building sandcastles at Balboa beach this summer. We packed wet sand into the plastic molds and flipped them upside down onto the shoreline.

If your two-year-old granddaughter believes fire will not burn her, will you say, “Sure, if you believe it, it must be true for you”? You say, “That’s silly, of course it will burn her.” So truth is greater than belief.