Please enjoy this heartfelt contribution from one of our dearest members of the Conscious Dying Collective. May it serve as a stirring invitation for us all to embrace the wildness within.
An Invitation to Write a Prayer for My Wild Soul
Blessings to you my wild soul. Blessings to the wildness of my soul and the soul of my wildness.
There, that's a start. But where do I go from here?
How do I sincerely pray to something that feels a bit lost to
me? Lost first to the winds of time. Lost now to the huge crunch of time caring for new twin grandbabies, a toddler and a struggling post-partum daughter.
If I even knew where my wild was, how can I even pause long enough to find it?
An interior wildness was a constant companion in my thoughts and around my heart since…. well, forever. It was previously, always, easily located -- as if residing on the surface of my skin, like a slow-release watering into my sense of being. It has inspired spontaneous actions– some that were pretty good. It has sparked creativity that resulted in some interesting things. It has stoked the fires of some pretty awesome seeds of joy and excitement.
There has always been a wild soul in me -- even if at times an untidy, windswept wandering rebel-soul seeking any cause to wilder myself.
Yet at the dawn of this now 8th decade of my life, you ask me to write this prayer to my wild soul?... Continue Reading On Our Blog!
With love,
Woods Winfree
Woods Winfree in an EOL Doula, Conscious Dying Educator and Lifecycle Celebrant by day and formidable grandma 24/7. You may know her as Conscious Dying Collective's Scholarship Coordinator and facilitator of Grace & Grief Vigils.
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