Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.