This is for the Wild Ones

Media is out of control. Daily we get bombarded by TV, newspapers, radio, magazines, social media like Facebook or the Internet, advertisements, billboards.  What you put into your mind, changes your mind, and the way you think and interact with the world. Just because it is print or text, does not make it authentic, accurate, or a good idea (especially all this political talk). Check the sources and actually talk to people involved in the story. Read beyond some glossy headline.

I was thinking of this when Facebook lit up with "International Woman's Day". What, one day dedicated to us? How about celebrating fierce, strong, brave, courageous women every day? To the single mothers, the woman who has to work two jobs to survive, to the woman with breast cancer, to the working pregnant woman, to the woman who lives a life that she wants, to the woman who have to live up to society's expectations of what it really means to be a woman?

So, I complied some of my favorite quotes and some of my photos from one of my inspirational woman writers Janne Robinson  post below.

 “Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Hiking in my Wonderland: San Juan Mountains, Colorado in July (Photo by Ben)

Silverton, Colorado (Photo by Ben)

“There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.” ~ Barbara Lazear Ascher

“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.” ~ Roman Payne

 

Canyoneering in Capitol Reef National Park, 2014 (Photo by Ben)

 

Back county Patrol in Glacier National Park, Montana 2012

 “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

And to my wild woman inspiration, my mother, who has had a lifetime filled with wild stories of her own: 

mom hugging a redwood tree in Humboldt County, California, 2010