Life here is not all sunshine and beaches.
Like many women I sometimes find myself spending too much time

Here

and doing This

or going to buy This

so I can make This

It’s all too easy to be lulled into a snare of my own making.
The temptation then is to turn to

This

or even This

When I want to be one of These

I read these words and felt them kindle some inner fire

“A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, strong life-force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Yet separation from the wildish nature causes a woman’s personality to become meagre, thin, ghostly, spectral. We are not meant to be puny with frail hair and inability to leap up, inability to chase, to birth, to create a life. When women’s lives are in stasis, in ennui, it is always time for the wildish woman to emerge, it is time for the creating function of the psyche to flood the delta”                       Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Puny with frail hair, thin, spectral and ghostly. Yes, that’s how I’ve been feeling here lately.
And irritable!
This book has been on my shelf for more than ten years – only now am I ready to read it

So….it’s time to seek out a high place and howl at the moon!

PS As I wrote those words the Resident Adolescent yet again put on the music system with throbbing bass at top volume. My wolf leapt up, loped downstairs and snarled!