to yet another beauteous day and to her amazement finds a happy little place called Hippyland. Hooray!!! I got my name from a book: "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Womna Archetype" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. She is a Jungian analyst and contadora (storyteller) She takes the bones of old stories and fleshes them out. Here's an excerpt from the book: "Wildlife and the Wild Woman are both endangered species...the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild natures fades." The idea for the book came from her study of wildlife biology, wolves in particular. "Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intenslely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave. I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the female psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively." Anyone else hear the call of the wild ?
