05/03/2017
Emma Watson chose Women Who Run With the Wolves for her book club.
Incredible choice.
A life changing book that I am learning to facilitate with Dr Estes. Am currently planning my trip to the USA for this years training instalment and excited to bring back the learning to my community.
New circles beginning early May 2017.
Get in touch if you are interested 🌈💜
Dear Brave Souls: An Announcement!
Emma Watson chooses Women Who Run with the Wolves for her "Emma Watson Feminist Goodreads Book Club: Our Shared Shelf."
Emma's goal for the club is "to share feminist ideas and encourage discussion on the topic. One book is selected per month, and is discussed in the last week of that month."
Emma has chosen WWRWTW for March and April 2017, perhaps, not sure, to give the reader time to lay one's life down alongside the stories and commentaries,to weigh and see and rise up.
Those who have contacted me about these matters are happy as am I, that WWRWTW may likely reach new generations through Emma's book club ...
a long held hope, as you who know my work, know about my intentions to inoculate the young to be wise and wild, to survive any Bluebeard, and to know even when fallen to bones, we can come back to life again. That to howl to find our pack, is our birthright.
And sure enough, here is are pix, as you see, of Emma at rest, and of Emma beginning her howl...!!
[This is long from here on down, and I hope you will read it in full, for in it is a true story, telling about often hidden root life of a young guardian wolf, that is, a woman who is working with great power toward a principled world wherein we can all be free, in love with so much, creative and wild. It is your story too. A true Bedtime Story...]
YOU AND I, OFFERING OUR BEST KNOWINGS TO THE YOUNG
Many of you remember I have written to you several letters a year here at fb, gently urging you who are older especially, to share wwrwtw with those younger, those quite young, as well as young women in their teens and twenties.
Many many of you have done so before even being asked, sharing with your students, your children and grandchildren. I love that you continue to care and hand down this legacy to the youngest generations.
Three years ago, I began teaching a full five-day training re how to teach/lead/ facilitate wwrwtw groups, so people face to face, can learn together over time, learn the deep aspects of this work as applied to their own precious lives... and to create meaningful bonds with one another...
with emphasis on teaching the younger generations whom I dearly want, along with you, to remain standing, wild and wise in the current and incessantly fierce crosswinds-- both the often vapid overculture and the too often time-sink, screed unleashing 'social' media.
I want all to survive, to survive and to fling all manner of healing and helping into the crosswinds, striving to remain in true wild and wise self, ss, still standing, sd, still dancing. I mean with everything in me, that.
I am highly aware that most all of us carry a vision for our young, not about who they ought be or become, but that however they go and grow, that they go gentle and wild, growing more and more wise and fierce whenever necessary...
for we want to cheer our young onward, despite all our scars and wrong turns, and all our joys and rising creative forces for self, family and for others....
in a way, who better to cheer for the young than those of us who are Tribe of the Sacred Heart, Scar Clan.... who better to call out wise ways, wild ways to our young who will be and are well on their ways to being the inventors, intervenors, intermediaries, future wild and wise mothers, the artists, creators of their own lives, the just shapers of our enormous world
Free, to follow the true self's calling, as each person wishes, as each person sees fit according to the loving, insightful intelligence of their own soul ...
POIGNANT INFO, OFTEN LITTLE KNOWN, RE EMMA WATSON'S LIFE
Emma Watson, many of us know as a child: the endlessly feisty, hopeful, wise little girl child in the Harry Potter films.
Now Emma is a lovely young woman actor. But there is more by my lights, much more. Making an old woman's heart glad to see one more lit lantern across the world.
Born in France, Emma's mother and father are lawyers. At age 26 now, she is intimately tied to helping the poor and those who are refugees, those who are suffering across the world.
She is an UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality.
She advocates education for girls, including in Bangladesh and the Zambia.
I love this anecdote about Emma's young life: She is definitely a La fuerza, fierce one, a Lobacita.
When she delivered an address at UN Headquarters in New York City to launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, she said she began questioning gender-based assumptions at age eight when she was called "bossy" (a trait she has attributed to her being a "perfectionist) whilst boys were not, and at 14 when she was "sexualised by certain elements of the media".
Watson's speech called feminism "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities" and declared that the perception of "man-hating" [in feminism] is something that "has to stop".
Emma received threats within 12 hours of making the speech, which left her "raging. ... If they were trying to put me off [of doing this work], it did the opposite".
In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl [now age 19 in 2017] was shot in the head during a Taliban attempt to assassinate her-- thinking to prevent her from encouraging education for all girls. Malala, now the youngest Nobel Peace Prize awardee, told Emma Watson she decided to call herself a feminist after hearing Watson's speech at the UN.
SPEAKING OUT, SPEAKING UP, STANDING UP, STANDING FOR... BY ALL OF US, FOR ALL OF US
As you know, it is far too often still an issue worldwide when women speak out, stand up, stand for... and the backlash against them
[In a performance segment from the stages where I perform, I often read aloud from hate/threat mail/ screed emails/ hateful social media comments received from others, and talk during Q and A segment, about computer crime law, legal and law enforcement options, and also strong prayer for those who attempt to harm
- so all present can know we cannot be silenced, that taking the heat is part of speaking love aloud to fear and hatred, that the world needs each of us to raise voice in effective and blessing ways for especially the now and for the future of our world so our world is one of blessing and not a gray, vapid dystopia...
but also so that we can all pray together, for the protection for all who love, all who create and speak love and freedom, all who are dedicated to live and let live, all striving to live within reciprocal goodness, care of one's life, one's family, and tikkun olam, care of the world soul.]
To me, this is why my heart is glad that Emma chose Women Who Run with the Wolves to bring to those readers who I hope will read, and be refreshed, replenished, see the pathways in the work, to return to true self... and as they are each called, become a voice for and in our world.
And that readers will see too, something close to my heart as an elder now... that often in the old tales and myths, there is an Old Woman and a Young Woman who travel/ speak/ converse together, lifting up, transforming, blessing much and many on their ways. Vasalisa and the Baba Yaga, come to mind. [I wink at you with the old squinty eye... I know you know...]
Dont forget, we are Los bravos - 'the heralds.'
Oooo-oooooooooooo
With love,
Dr.E.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés is Mestiza Latina [Native American/ Mexica Spanish], presently in her seventies. She grew up in the now vanished oral tradition of her war-torn immigrant, refugee families who could not read nor write, or did so haltingly, and for whom English was their third language overlying their ancient natal languages.
