Editors’ Note
WILD CARD! Be careful what you ask for! At the beginning, even with two announcements, we had so few submissions that it looked like Circles on the Mountain just wasn’t going to make it into form this year. As a last try, we put out a call . . . more submissions, please. You responded in spades! Never have we been so swamped with members sending in their stories, their reflections, their photos, and poems. We went from ten submissions to almost forty in less than two weeks!
What awaits you in this issue is the generous heart of the WGC community. More than being grateful for a large quantity of submissions, we editors see this outpouring as a big YES to our mutual connection, made visible through Circles on the Mountain. We take Circles home and read it in bits and pieces. We refer back to it and get re-inspired about our work. We find an unusual perspective, a poetically turned phrase, or a touching, tender description. Some authors we have known for many years, and some we are meeting for the first time. Together, we are a landscape as varied and as colorful as the landforms we quest on.
Circles on the Mountain has provided a record of who we have been, who we are now, and who we are becoming. Yes, Circles remains our heart offering to one another. Thank you, one and all, for your voices and views. In between annual Gatherings, we can sit in “council” and share stories, here in our larger circle, our Circles on the Mountain.
With wild heart,
Nancy and Sara
The Wild Imaginal World of Storytelling and Mirroring - Betsy Perluss
Hefted - Simeon Ayres
Refuge in These Burned Hills: A Prayer - Sage Abella
Weaving the Web - Anna Coffman
What is Wild: Ecotones! - Jennifer Wilhoit
“All” is a Big Word - John Davis
Insanity: A “How-To” Guide - Lauren Marziliano
A Mask, a Mouse, a Bear, a Cow, and an Eagle - Kent Pearce
Let It Be a Dragon - Trebbe Johnson
Initiation and Rites of Passage - Bill Plotkin
Ayahuasca Ceremony as a Rite of Passage - Larry Hobbs
A Simple, Primal Challenge- Robert Wagner
Praise Be the Drinking of Sunlight - Joseph Rubano
Primordial Dialogue - Nancy Jane
Wild Future Vision - Kinde Nebeker
The Courage to Be Happy Galaxy - Earth Dancer
Rites of Passage and White Cultural Identity Darcy Ottey
A Different World: Perceiving Possibilities Corinna Stoeffl
Wild Card Notes on the Great Gamble - Dominica Krizova
Reflections on Teaching Others to Guide - Fran Weinbaum
Caretaking: Love, Stonepiles, Witness - Carol Wilburn
Green Tara Strikes - Phil Baum
Grail Quest - Paul Andrade
To Be Satisfied - Keith Kilburn
Turning Fear into Power - Linda Sartor
The Living Symbol on Quest - Mark Sipowicz
Dawn Walk - Michelle Katz
Grandmothers’ Circle - Silvia Talavera
Ascending, On Being a Mentor - Vanessa Osage
The Wisdom of the Branch - Polly Triplat
Beautiful - Pippa Bondy
Wilderness and Grace - Ruthanne Svendsen
The Parade of Our Mutual Life - Scott Lawrance .
The Mountains Are Beckoning - Stephanie Block
Harvest Time - Petra Lentz-Snow
The (Nearly) Dead Guiding the Blind - Scout Tomyris
Coyote Keeps His Name - Steven Foster