Child wolf and the Look of Love

 Child wolf and the Look of Love

Why is it that we think of wolves and strong negative emotions come immediately? We are assaulted by fear? The image of a wild, ferocious beast comes to mind, intently after us! One that we find difficult to run from. Boy! Are they fast! They can achieve 36-38 miles per hour in short bursts! Even the fastest person clocked is the Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt at 23.4 mph!, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 100 meter sprint. So not even Usain could outrun them!!!

Recently the State of Idaho passed a law allowing the killing of up to 90% of the states wolves - imagine the carnage, the brutality, the killing thirst driving those human beings! After all, aren’t wolves ‘sentient’ beings?

And having exercised that killing spree, who was most hurt by it? The wolves…?They embrace each day, day after day, without worry, living each moment in their environment. Do you think they worry over door alarms, closing of doors, staking out traps for the enemy? Or, do they live each moment, and ‘act’ in the face of danger, and when it’s over they go back to their ‘usual and customary’ life in the woods.

Take now those ‘humans’. They were energized by negative energies - whether fear, vengeance, hurt, hate? And having practiced that, are there residuals? Having tasted that, experiences the activation of those neurons, would parallel circumstances as with the wolves come up for them and …surely but certainly…affect their nervous system, and carve out a deeper memory in their neurological response system. Isn’t it so?

I venture to say…wolves are freer, definitely, and healthier.

So when I look at the card on my desk…tears flow. Immerse the look and the heart into the space between the wolfie reaching for mother in a silent energetic reach…words, nope! Maybe a whimper sound, maybe?

Just for a short moment, an instant.
Sensing the towering presence of the Mother over it, caressing also - energetically, without words, without hugs, just the proximity of the Mother’s shoulders and heart: “I’m here for you”, it seems to express. And ‘wolfie’ feels that, deeply, without a sense of doubt, without needing to behave to be caressed and protected…just because…’there’s Mom’.

And they are “animals”, so we label them, and call them. And still…they practice a loving we may not as much as they do, given our fleeting rush for the next thing. When was the last time I, we, practiced that “Look of Love”…? 

Surely, I miss doing it. “Woofy” - thank You!