E-mail to My Grandmother
“Please note this marks the first and last instance of my using the phrase “modern rock band”. “
My 90 year-old grandmother and her friends read this book Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, wherein “[f]olklore, fairy tales and dream symbols are called on to help restore women’s neglected intuitive and instinctive abilities in this earthy first book by a Jungian analyst” for their book club. Ever since then, my grandma will sometimes refer to those friends as “wolves”, i.e. empowered women.
I have been obsessively listening to Les Savy Fav and kept thinking of her, not because she likes the indie rock but because she likes poetry and symbolism. So I sent her this email today.
[Please note this marks the first and last instance of my using the phrase "modern rock band". Oh, and we call my grandmother "Mema" and my grandfather "Bepa" because as a child Adam couldn't say Grandma and Grandpa. Or something like that.]
Hi Meems,
I’ve been thinking about you while listening to this song called “What Would Wolves Do?” by a modern rock band called Les Savy Fav (it reminded me of you and your “wolves” from “Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype”).
I’m pretty sure you won’t like the song because the chorus gets pretty raucous, but I thought the lyrics were interesting and wanted to share. I especially like the lines about sleeping with lions in their fur and a good stumble being a symphony:
“We huffed the sky into our mouths
We saw the ocean and drank it down
Because we were giants or maybe birds
We slept with lions, tucked into their fur
The world may seem cruel
The worldly may hate us
In time we will show the world why the world made us
Slip into epiphanies
Oversee oversight
A good stumble’s a symphony
A good drift takes drive
Quartz doesn’t burn
Rust doesn’t hum
Maybe we should blame it on the structures of the sun
Every machine
We’ve made must bow
To what the wolf and cub have found”
I had a lot of fun at your birthday bash. Glad I got to see everyone. Please give my love to Beeps.
Love,
Cari
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