My song today is ‘Ring of Fire’. The song was written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore. It was recorded by the Carter family in 1962 and by Johnnie Cash in 1963. The song was originally recorded by June Carter’s sister, Anita Carter, and was ranked as Number 4 on CMT’S ‘100 Greatest Songs of Country Music’ in 2003 and was Number 87 on the Rolling Stone’s list of ‘The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time’. In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked the song Number 27 on its list of ‘The 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time’. The song was recorded on March 25,1963 and became one of the biggest hits of Cash's career, staying at number one on the country chart for seven weeks. It was certified Gold on January 21, 2010, by the RIAA and has also sold over 1.2 million digital downloads.
Although "Ring of Fire" sounds ominous, the term refers to ‘falling in love’; which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny Cash at the time.
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I am less of a believer in coincidences, and more of a disciple in micro/macro reproductive systems. I cannot consider it merely ‘coincidental’ that the rotation and cycles of the earth, moon, and all the planets directly affect all human life, without there being an indisputable link between the Creation and Life on Earth. There are patterns in the galactic system that are replicated on the earth below. There is an invisible connection that enjoins nature with nurture, and which harbours meaning to all life on earth and in space.
Geographically, ‘The Ring of Fire’ is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. In a large 40,000 km (25,000 miles) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts, and plate movements. It has 452 volcanoes (more than 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes). It is said that about 90% of all major volcanoes in the world are here. ‘The Ring of Fire’ is sometimes called the circum-Pacific Belt.
I could stretch my writer’s imagination and see a relationship between the horseshoe-shape of ‘The Ring of Fire’ and the shape of the female reproductive organs. I could also make an intergalactic connection between the birth of the stars in the heavens and the birth of every new-born babe on earth. What is harder to explain, however, is the stars in the lovestruck eyes of a man and woman ‘on fire’ with the overwhelming passion and temptation of the flesh to consume all. Wherever lives the ‘Ring of Fire’ in mankind, it shall undoubtedly remain all-consuming.
Love and peace
Bill xxx