In Find Your Howl, Flaum uses a story of a red wolf who was raised in captivity and released to the wild but could not howl. In his adventures through the wild he meets a deer who tells him when he is hungry for his howl it will be there. He then eats the deer and the raven who is eating the bone tells him that he is not listening to his feelings with the right part of his body. As he is running he changes, but eventually comes across the barrel of a gun held by a farmer. The wolf runs into the barrel and then finds a tribe circling a fire, beating a drum that turns out to be his own heart. The people were dressed as a red wolf, and the wolf walks into the fire without being burned and howls, and the tribe responds, and the wolf leaves middle earth and sees the moon overhead. Flaum is trying to say that we have to overcome inner battles to finally show our full potential, but it is a hard and painful process.
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
This quote speaks to me because I never know where I am going to take my creative work when I am doing it.
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