As the Page Turns - Noon Group
August 23, 2010
Hello Friends,
The first meeting of our noon group - reading Women Who Run with the Wolves - was great! Reading aloud and then stopping to discuss what we've just heard was excellent. Different perspectives brought to the table made for lively discussion.
We have the bonus of one person with Spanish as her first language, so she helped us with pronunciation and the nuances of meaning of some of the author's phrases.
Coffee and cookies were served to round out the bag lunches.
We have the bonus of one person with Spanish as her first language, so she helped us with pronunciation and the nuances of meaning of some of the author's phrases.
Coffee and cookies were served to round out the bag lunches.
The noon group of As the Page Turns will meet on the first and third Tuesday of each month from 12 noon - 1 p.m. Feel free to join us at any time. Remember, men are welcome.
Hope to see you at our next meeting, Tuesday, September 7 at 12 noon.
Anne
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Ballantine Books, 1992 Reviewed by Laura Bryannan
"Every once and a while a truly great book for women comes along. Sometimes the book calls us to arms, sometimes it provides us with important new information about ourselves or our bodies, and sometimes--like this book--it will nourish our souls.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a Jungian analyst and cantadora, a collector and teller of stories. She has birthed a book about the archetype of the Wild Woman that has so much gut-level wisdom in it, you immediately sense that Estes is a woman who is really living her life (as opposed to simply existing in it). Estes has gotten past mentalized "good ideas," and presents material that applies to the total being: body, heart, mind and soul. This book is for any woman who longs in her secret self for something more, who knows that her mind works better than her heart, who feels as if she's stretched too thin, who has forgotten how to create, have fun, get dirty, laugh, cry or growl. Estes offers the "medicine" of folk and fairy tales to these wounds with insight and care. She shows how the archetype of the Wild Woman can be a model of wholeness for the modern woman.
Who is this Wild Woman? If you're thinking this is a book about how to be wild and crazy, you would be a little bit right, but mostly wrong. The Wild Woman is not wild in the sense of being crazy, angry or out-of-control, she is wild because she has not lost her connection to life, death and rebirth--or, to put it more simply, nature.
"A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Yet separation from the wildish nature causes a woman's personality to become meager, thin, ghosty, spectral. We are not meant to be puny with frail hair and inability to leap up, inability to give chase, to birth, to create a life."