Do you remember your wildness?
You are intimately connected to this beautiful Earth. You are kin to the wild and winged things. Your creative heart beats wild songs, songs of sap rising in towering trees, songs of feathers held aloft by wind, songs of soft feet walking through fallen autumn leaves. You are made of stars. You are north, south, east, west. You are earth, air, fire, water. And you are so much more.
Explore what it means to remember your wild heart by finding presence and revelling in the delights of five of your senses. You can use your senses to connect to the natural world, to maintain that connection, and to walk towards an intentional life filled with wonder and curiosity, compassion and reciprocity, and the joy of creative embodiment.
Do you remember your wildness?
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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