Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

startled. Is that the way of all love? That it should carry the risk of death?

He cares deeply; it is the fabric of his life here. I think he must be a good man. But nobody is only one thing.

“And when you open your heart to rewilding a landscape, the truth is, you’re opening your heart to rewilding yourself.”

Yeah, people do bad things to each other. And we remember those stories, we remember the pain, but we remember it because it stands out. It’s the blip in the timeline, the thing that doesn’t fit, and that’s because the rest of the timeline, which is our whole lives really, is made of kindness. That’s what’s normal, it’s so normal we don’t even notice it.”