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wildness one writeous chick stuff i think about plus a couple of hopes and dreams and maybe a fear or two thrown in the mix search one writeous chick about jennifer upcoming classes workshops coaching events articles columns testimonials press mailing list contact tag archives wildness write your wild list 16 dec last week i wrote a post about being wild and included lists of times i was wild on the outside and inside and in writing these lists i felt reconnected with those wild times in my life and parts of myself often i feel like my experience of life has become dulled muted and tamed i can get into ruts that last weeks or months or even years where i am numb and sleepwalking through my days or worrying and white knuckling it through my days or just plain trying to make it through the day i keep quiet or play it safe or get all into self hate and in these times i have complete and total wild child amnesia i don t remember how strong courageous free bold and downright badass i ve been at times in my life many many times when i ve taken risks and rebelled and been wide awake alert and wild lots of things can numb us out to our own wildness routine an unfulfilling job anxiety and worries being hard on ourselves by doling out self criticism and heaping on self hate the expectations all those obligations that list goes on and on and then there are all those strict disciplinarians inside ourselves outside ourselves remembered and imagined keeping watch and reigning us in should we get too feisty but luckily there is a simple cure for wild child amnesia writing your own wild list because in the remembering and in the writing you can feel that energy again of your own badass boldness and reconnecting with these times in your life and this part of yourself may make you smile it could wake you up out of a daze and nudge you out of that rut and it just might give you some wild ideas so here s an assignment should you choose to accept it take out your notebook and pen hand writing your list will let you get more unruly and wild than if you neatly type it up you can even scribble in the margins and write outside the lines turn on some music maybe you have a wild theme song one of my favorites is teenage dream by katy perry and i also like to rock out to songs that remind me of my wild days like hip hop from the early 90 s lauryn hill circa 1998 d angelo in 2000 justin timberlake and gavin degraw and the black eyed eyed peas in 2003 and r b tunes that were on the radio in the summer of 2005 so now you have your music maybe you wanna crank it up and dance around a little then sit down kick back and write your wild list start it with times in my life i was wild and see what adventures it takes you on i d love to hear how it goes what are your wild theme songs did writing your list make you smile could you really feel it how did it feel get any ideas tags dance parties wild child amnesia wildness comments 3 comments categories shining brightly writing where the wild things are 10 dec you were once wild here don t let them tame you isadora duncan last week a yoga teacher read this quote at the end of class and it hit me as something that is very very true it reminded me of my own wildness that i sometimes allow myself to feel and occasionally allow myself to act on and more often feel the pressure to suppress and it occurred to me that society does not like wildness it doesn t trust wildness and it certainly does not value or encourage wildness a few days later i attended a symposium about gender parity in theatre and playwright tina howe spoke about being very conscious that as a woman when she is frisky or confrontational or wild in her writing when she writes about ideas that society does not embrace and does not want to hear she gets her wrists slapped in particular by the critics which seems to be a tactic for taming i kept thinking about this quote about how i feel wild inside and do not ever want to be tamed to follow the path i m supposed to follow or do the things i should do or want the things i m told to want to feel neat quiet feelings and never be emotionally messy and loud and if i am to quiet it down and clean it up fast and if that doesn t work then just hide it so no one can see to only say the things that are nice and acceptable and polite and stuff down everything else then i tweeted this quote which led to a conversation with several people on twitter about times in our lives when we were wild and this got me thinking about what it means to be wild and what the costs are of letting ourselves be tamed these are some times in my life i was wild the night before my french final sophomore year of high school i went to the local dive bar and got drunk on sex on the beaches i threw up that morning before i went to school and was on the verge of throwing up through the whole exam but i think i got an a anyway the summer after my junior year i told my mom i was staying at my friend s house and instead we went to montauk with the guys we were seeing we sped down old montauk highway in the pitch black night with the windows down and the sunroof open blasting ultraviolet by u2 and my stomach did flip flops like i was on a roller coaster senior year i cut honors physics class and went to the beach with two of my best friends in a red 1973 alfa romeo convertible the same month a group of friends including a guy i had a crush on pulled up in front of my house one night and my crush asked me to dance in the middle of the street as at this moment by billy vera and the beaters played on his car radio and i said yes also that month i quit my job at the tanning salon juice bar coffee house where i worked so i could go to a bruce springsteen concert because i wasn t able to get my shift covered it was june of my senior year of high school and a good month for wildness when i was 19 i turned down an internship doing pr for garden supplies and i spontaneously drove to cape cod in my 1972 bmw 2002 to live near the beach with my college roommate at 24 i quit a job with a salary and benefits so i could wait tables and be an actress there were other times when i was wild on the inside in quieter less obvious ways that didn t involve road trips classic cars and quitting jobs but that still feel like some of the boldest most daring risks i have taken times when i was strong when i didn t think i could be i didn t care what anyone else thought of me i didn t give a shit about being nice i spoke up for myself and stood up for myself i had unwavering belief in myself i followed my heart even when it meant that things would be hard uncomfortable painful or all of the above i rejected what i was supposed to do and did what i wanted to do i had messy feelings that i did not hide but the boldest and most courageously wild thing i have ever done is write and put my thoughts and feelings and experiences and fears and hopes and self down in words even when it scares me writing is deceptively simple running your pen across paper clicking keys on your computer but it is scary and powerful and wild beyond taming as anne lamott said tell the truth as you understand it if you re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this and it is a revolutionary act truth is always subversive what does being wild mean to you where do you feel the pressure to be tamed when were you wild on the outside and what times were you wild on the inside what are your big loud and small quiet acts of wild rebellion tags anne lamott isadora duncan tina howe wildness comments 13 comments categories shining brightly writing categories categories select category 5 6 7 8 dance annoyances articles believe in yourself cleaning club med commute dancing with the stars dating failure goals having faith holidays inspiration maroon 5 music negativity pop culture press self care shining brightly simple pleasures so you think you can dance spring subway technology addiction texting uncategorized vacation writeous 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