A walk on the wild side

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Let us allow our wild spirits to roam unfettered and unbound. Let us roar and howl and voice our deepest yearnings without caring what others will think about us.*
Keri Smith

Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
James Clear

Of all things, it was his brother’s betrayal that
set Joseph^ upon a path to astonishing accomplishment that
he could not have imagined:
It can sometimes be the actions of others that
let loose our wild spirit –
This is how it was for me;
Criticised and betrayed,
I both came upon and make a path that
brings greater fulfilment and
joy,
Though it has not been all at once –
I walk a slow journey in the same direction –
Nor am I roaring and howling:
Quite the opposite – I prefer hidden and quiet.

I hope you find your wild:
You don’t have to wait
for the criticism and betrayal.

*Keri Smith’s The Wander Society;
**James Clear’s Atomic Habits;
^Genesis 37.

8 thoughts on “A walk on the wild side”

  1. Hi 😃 this is so cool. Thanks for sharing. I really like the poem. I also had my mind blown by The Wander Society book. Wow. I was so excited. Have you had experience doing wandering? I’m on Day 4 of wandering and some very strange incredible stuff has been happening to me

  2. I am glad the text works for you. I keep on trying to develop this. My wandering tends to be in shorter bursts, but sometimes I manage longer, over a day or two, and I am open to words and ideas that I can turn into doodles. The Wander Society is a great book. I am intrigued by you being non day four of your own wandering, wondering (those two words go together often) what you are discovering.

  3. Lol wondering & wandering I like it. That is a significant passionate amount of wandering… “over a day or two”. Really amazing stuff happened to me on all my wanders. The Wander Society book says that ridiculously magical stuff happens on wanders. Day 1 I found a deer liquor bottle on the ground (the deer is my symbol, my blogger name is Red Deer). Day 2 I came across a house on fire and called the police. Day 3 I discovered this arcane gardening symbol on a gardening hose box. Day 4 when I was walking by, a man came out of his house putting a rifle in his own mouth 🥶🥶. Day 5 saw 6 cats and 3 dogs (I love animals so that counts as magical for me lol). Also when I returned home I arrived home at the same time as my wife taking a taxi home from the grocery store, completely unplanned. Day 6 (which is today) I saw a tiling company truck called the “Odyssey Tile”. The Odyssey has big personal meaning to me recently. Also it is so goofy to name a tile company after Odysseus. By themselves each of these events may be meaningless but I find, taking them all together, that this is really weird.

    What have your wanders been like? I honestly didn’t enjoy the “burning house” and “rifle in mouth man” wanders. Am I doing the wanders wrong for something like this to happen to me?

  4. That is an astonishing set of things that you witnessed whilst wandering. I hope that everyone concerned is safe, including yourself – that’s a lot of difficult stuff to process, though good fr you to be in the right place at the right time. Perhaps a little less drama over the coming days, though. Keep on wandering.

  5. Haha yeah 😊 the drama did die down. Thanks. Yeah I really hope the gun guy and the people whose backyard was on fire are ok. What is your wandering like? What intention do you use to create the experience? I say to myself “No destination. Keep your eyes open” before I embark on a wandering 🥾

  6. I think what I’m trying to be is present, to let it be, happen. Things go awry if I try somehow to hold onto an experience to be able to return to it at some point.

  8. I don’t know about you, but I start dropping things when I try and hold onto everything, and not necessarily the things that I want to.

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