The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.
There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child__ six-foot, one-inch growing child who knew nothing of accident, injury, dismemberment, death__ho would study those lessons tomorrow, thank you, but not today. Today, it would be sufficient to be wild and free.
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There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child__ six-foot, one-inch growing child who knew nothing of accident, injury, dismemberment, death__ho would study those lessons tomorrow, thank you, but not today. Today, it would be sufficient to be wild and free.
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