The Inner Child Doesn’t Have to Look Like a Child.

I wrote recently about getting more & more interested in the “inner child” topic. As I’ve been thinking about it, I realized how, in my night-time dreams, my inner child doesn’t actually often look like my child-self. 

Sometimes, she shows up as a kitten locked up in a bathroom. Sometimes, as a puppy yapping at my heels. And from the time that I started birdwatching, I have had more dreams with birds in them. 

Last summer, I had my first band of little bushtits show up at my bi...