Find Your Howl

This is a link to read Find Your Howl.

The first story that Johathon Flaum references in Find Your Howl is about Mumon, one of the fourteen red wolves remaining in the wild in the 1970's and his journey to find his howl.  Because the wolves were raised in captivity, none of them knew how to howl and some wished to be back in captivity.  Mumon did not.  He vowed to search for his howl so he could lead the pack and keep them alive.  After traveling many miles, Mumon became hungry and chased down a deer.  During the chase, the deer speaks to Mumon and tells him that his howl will come to him when he needs it.  After eating the deer, ravens begin to pick at the bones while Mumon sleeps on a rock.  When he awakens, a raven tells him he must rid himself of the shame of being wild to find his howl.  Mumon rises and with the energy from the deer and decides to run.  With each passing mile he shed the self he knew and was becoming a new wolf.  Without realizing it, he approaches a farmer with a gun and is shot.  He imagines himself at the center of the earth, burning with fire and surrounded by a drumming tribe.  At this moment, he begins to howl.  Once regaining his awareness, Mumon realizes that the tribe was actually his pack, and they all began to howl.

The main point of the author referencing this story is to show that we must sacrifice everything and do things that are unbearable to find our self, our howl.  In the story Mumon must explore and rid himself of his past to find who he truly was.  We must do the same.

One of my Favorite quotes about DREAMS

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-T. E. Lawrence

Without dreams, our world would be very different.  The dreamers in our society are the ones who come up with new and unbelievable ideas.  But we must remember that they all started out as dreams.  Without the work and creativity of the dreamer, many of the ideas would be forgotten just like a dream one has at night.  To actualize an idea spawned from a dream, one must put all their effort towards progressing it.  In this sense, one would have to sacrifice everything and find their howl within their dream or idea.  This quote is a great way of explaining how dreams, in the mind of the right dreamers, can be very dangerous.