I have also been reading Tsultrim Allione's wonderful book, Feeding Your Demons, a work greatly influenced by Chod (pronounced Ch'uh or Cho) Buddhism, a Mahayana Buddhist practice that involves not so much confronting your demons as embracing them and absorbing their power (a fascinating extract from the book is available on the website of Tricycle, a wonderful magazine that provides an "independent voice of Buddhism"), and this, too, fed into my desire to make the title of this blog more positive, in the hope that ultimately it will offer a positive, no matter how tiny, voice in the world.
A third influence is that I have spent much of the past year adapting as a screenplay Toby Barlow's remarkable book, Sharp Teeth (a contemporary epic poem set in Los Angeles, no less), which involves dogs of all kinds and the men and women who can turn into them. It provides a view of canines as a king of pre-moral primal force, and as both a dog-lover and a wolf-lover myself, I felt that the original title of this blog perhaps gave wolves a bad rep.
Anyway, here it is: Loving The Wolf. I hope to post to it a little more frequently than I have managed so far this year. And for those of you who used to read Single Word, that blog is now private, since it contains so many family photographs. There were a few general readers who seemed to love that blog and if they care to contact me at singleword@alexanderstuart.com, I will invite them to view it.
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