What a beautiful homecoming! I could relate in many ways to your story and loved how it has unfolded. I’ve read other Estes books and I have dipped in and out of this one. Thank you for sharing!
Sometimes, the reading of a book is a spiritual encounter, an epiphany. Thank you for reminding me I need to go back to this book! I read it a few years ago, and I kept it under my bedside table, as a book to pick up again, and again, and again.
Love this. I feel such affinity with your awakening from rationality of mind to knowing of heart and soul. It’s disorienting, because the culture surrounding us insists on reason, on measure, on individual genius to the exclusion of interconnected wisdom. I love that quote about numbers and stories - exactly! CPE is a brilliant writer and human. The selkie story is one of the most potent in that book. I’m so glad to have discovered your work, thanks to this series.
I love this, Angie! I recently inherited an underlined, dog-eared copy of this book from my mom, and I think that reading it will help me better understand who she was…and, by extension, who I am. Your essay is a beautiful invitation to do just that.
This really does encapsulate the power of books. Many thanks for sharing and guiding us through your own relationship with the book, and how it played such a role in your growth and development. There are echoes of my own past here too, which will probably not surprise you, of being in a relationship which was comfortable, with a good, decent person and also knowing something was wrong, something was missing. It took me a long time to look at this as closely as I should and a bit longer before I understood I needed the wild in a different way.
Thanks again, especially since this book has been on my to-be-read list for a long time now (I think I first heard of it when I was reading a lot of Angela Carter, so it's high time I made the effort to read it now!).
"I had tried to live my life just a scientist, not as a person or a woman." This line, Angie! Gorgeous. It so profoundly catches the way we can inadvertently make boxes for ourselves--or let the world make them for us--and try to live out of them and then what a difference it makes when we step into our wholeness.
"Women Who Run with Wolves" is one of the books that travels with me in Ruby the van, my current home. I've spent many an hour with one of Estés's chapters, from a sunny rock in Colorado to a riverbank teeming with salmon up in your home state. (I am in love with Alaska, btw.)
Thank you to both you and Mikey for this wonderful share.
Oh my gosh! So great to see this book getting props. I found it on the table of my friend’s feminist mom in the 8th grade then asked my mom to buy me a copy. Would like to think that Vasilisa The Brave led me safely though adolescence.
Excellent essay. The quote about two ways impose order was well done.
What a beautiful homecoming! I could relate in many ways to your story and loved how it has unfolded. I’ve read other Estes books and I have dipped in and out of this one. Thank you for sharing!
I’m a guy who runs with the wolves, so gonna revisit this masterarroooooooo — !!!
Sometimes, the reading of a book is a spiritual encounter, an epiphany. Thank you for reminding me I need to go back to this book! I read it a few years ago, and I kept it under my bedside table, as a book to pick up again, and again, and again.
Love this. I feel such affinity with your awakening from rationality of mind to knowing of heart and soul. It’s disorienting, because the culture surrounding us insists on reason, on measure, on individual genius to the exclusion of interconnected wisdom. I love that quote about numbers and stories - exactly! CPE is a brilliant writer and human. The selkie story is one of the most potent in that book. I’m so glad to have discovered your work, thanks to this series.
I love this, Angie! I recently inherited an underlined, dog-eared copy of this book from my mom, and I think that reading it will help me better understand who she was…and, by extension, who I am. Your essay is a beautiful invitation to do just that.
This really does encapsulate the power of books. Many thanks for sharing and guiding us through your own relationship with the book, and how it played such a role in your growth and development. There are echoes of my own past here too, which will probably not surprise you, of being in a relationship which was comfortable, with a good, decent person and also knowing something was wrong, something was missing. It took me a long time to look at this as closely as I should and a bit longer before I understood I needed the wild in a different way.
Thanks again, especially since this book has been on my to-be-read list for a long time now (I think I first heard of it when I was reading a lot of Angela Carter, so it's high time I made the effort to read it now!).
"I had tried to live my life just a scientist, not as a person or a woman." This line, Angie! Gorgeous. It so profoundly catches the way we can inadvertently make boxes for ourselves--or let the world make them for us--and try to live out of them and then what a difference it makes when we step into our wholeness.
"Women Who Run with Wolves" is one of the books that travels with me in Ruby the van, my current home. I've spent many an hour with one of Estés's chapters, from a sunny rock in Colorado to a riverbank teeming with salmon up in your home state. (I am in love with Alaska, btw.)
Thank you to both you and Mikey for this wonderful share.
Oh my gosh! So great to see this book getting props. I found it on the table of my friend’s feminist mom in the 8th grade then asked my mom to buy me a copy. Would like to think that Vasilisa The Brave led me safely though adolescence.