I Am Built Close To The Ground

Bone By Bone, Hair By Hair, Wild Woman Comes Back. Through Night Dreams, Through Events Half Understood And Half Remembered.

Story Is Far Older Than The Art Of Science And Psychology, And Will Always Be The Elder In The Equation No Matter How Much Time Passes.

In This Tradition A Story Is 'holy,' And It Is Used As Medicine," She Told Radiance Magazine. "the Story Is Not Told To Lift You Up, To Make You Feel Better, Or To Entertain You, Although All Those Things Can Be True. The Story Is Meant To Take The Spirit Into A Descent To Find Something That Is Lost Or Missing And To Bring It Back To Consciousness Again.

All The "not Readies," All The "i Need Time," Are Understandable, But Only For A Short While. The Truth Is That There Is Never A "completely Ready," There Is Never A Really "right Time." As With Any Descent To The Unconscious, There Comes A Time When One Simply Hopes For The Best, Pinches One's Nose, And Jumps Into The Abyss. If This Were Not So, We Would Not Have Needed To Create The Words Heroine, Hero, Or Courage.

Rather Than Chairs And Tables, I Preferred The Ground, Trees, And Caves, For In Those Places I Felt I Could Lean Against The Cheek Of God.