I Feel Wild

I do not move gracefully.

I’ve never been compared

to FLOWING WATER

or DANCING LIGHT.

I move like the sky is falling.

I move with jarring urgency

and the force of 10,000 hearts.

I feel calculated with intention

And reckless with execution.

I feel wild.

But I am learning, that this

limiting PERCEPTION sees

through control-seeking eyes.

It is fighting back perfectionist

ways that wish to SOOTHE A HEART

that felt inadequate.

It is heavy with the WEIGHT

OF WORDS and wounds that

I’m not meant to carry.

so instead of moving gracefully,

I am moving with grace.

Go

We are born wild, but then we lose our senses. In a world where food comes in tidy plastic packages, modern footwear binds us into synthetic soles, we swim in chlorine pools and breathe in small shallow chest-gasps while sitting in front of screens for hours at at time—

A Full Moon in Kyrgyzstan

What is that edge, the one where we leave behind the fearlessness of youth in order to begin the heart’s journey into the wilderness of womanhood? One adventuress stumbles upon it on a rough slope above the Issyk-Kul Valley.

Starling

Where does a woman find freedom in a city life bounded by motherhood, car horns, glaring street lights, and the silent expectation that we succumb to flying in formation?

Dirt

Singer, songwriter, creator of The Shadow Catchers—a female indie folk and Americana band from the Pacific Northwest—shares a poignant question.

I Feel Wild

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Go

A Full Moon in Kyrgyzstan

Starling

Dirt