exploding outward like a cannon while blocking.

[intertribal]

My family are all Fire elements - me, my parents, my grandfather (my mother's father - my father's parents, I will never know).  I'm a Fire Rabbit (adventurous, prone to tantrums, conflict-averse), my parents are Fire Pigs (risk-takers, all or nothing, excellent leaders), and my grandfather's a Fire Goat (less sensitive, selfish, social).

Fire: south, red, bitter, middle finger, speech, Vermilion Bird, apricot, beans, youth, passion, intelligence, movement.

In other news, my mother ran into a box in our garage while parking the car a few months ago and now the contents are in our basement.  It's old assorted books that she doesn't know what to do with and has no interest in reading.  At least some of them are hers - I can't imagine my dad ever owning a book called Breakdance: Apa dan Bagaimana? (what is it and how do you do it) - and the rest are his, presumably.  I'm keeping Armed Separatism in Southeast Asia and Time Out of Hand: Revolution and Reaction in Southeast Asia, but my most exciting find was A Passage to India, one of my favorite novels that my mother has never claimed to know.