Wild Woman
Letters from Readers
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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.