The title is the last line of an awesome poem by my daughter, Discoverature, which she wrote in her sophmore year of college.  Her teacher graded it a “C.”  I think it’s one of the best poems I’ve ever read.  So did the rest of her class.

Which just goes to show you that all who teach/lead/coach don’t necessarily know.

But your Wylde self knows. 

You know deep inside what it is you really want and need.  Looking for it outside yourself is only good if you know what you’re looking for, and have the opportunity to lay out expectations between you and whomever you are considering letting close enough to share in your path through their teaching/leading/coaching (we’ll call this TLC for short).   What you want from the outside is experience that you can take back inside to reflect on and integrate into a new understanding of the world.  This reflection must be built into any TLC because if it isn’t, you are nothing more than a parrot.

You are not here to follow another person’s way.  If they are traveling a similar path and can cue you to dragons and quagmires and shortcuts and safe spaces where they listen while you bring your ideas into the material world in writing or out loud, then great.  But one size does not fit all, and if you have to cut off pieces of who you are and what you believe to fit into anyone’s box, you are on the wrong path.

So who are you?  Who have you been in your life to date?  Daughter, sister, friend, playmate, lover, wife, care-taker, widow?  How have you defined yourself?  Quiet, noisy, creative, athletic, risk-taker?  Where are you now on this path?  And what of those roles (for they are all roles) do you wish to keep and what are you going to choose to leave behind?

Is it time to take time to answer?

Can you answer the Moon’s question?

Wylde Women’s Wisdom:

discoverature by Jessie (Vitale) Scott

sand sloughs dead skin cells that cake

     over true identities.

Time requests masks for safety

     measures against a world.

hidden secrets, deceiving lies of complete

     control at all cost demand upkeep.

unconventional interests in unaccepting circles

     force individuals into silence.

smiles on lips require constant

     practice in unpolished mirrors.

search deep within; concealed caves hold

     answers to the moon’s question “you are who?”

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