This is the view yesterday afternoon from my windows:



You should have seen it when it was on fire. 

William James (in "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?" 1904): "I am as confident as I am of anything that, in myself, the stream of thinking (which I recognize emphatically as a phenomenon) is only a careless name for what, when scrutinized, reveals itself to consist chiefly of the stream of my breathing.  The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breath' which actually does accompany them... breath, which was ever the original of 'Spirit,' breath moving outwards... is, I am persuaded, the essence out of which philosphers have constructed the entity known to them as consciousness..."