Jillian's April Post: Connect with Your Wild Side, Part 2

Denys Finch Hatton said in the movie Out of Africa that he liked animals so much because they "don't do anything half-heartedly. Everything is for the first time."

Barbi Crisp described in Change Your Life Through Travel her experience hiking in the Grand Canyon, where she broke her ankle seeking to evade a flash flood and needed a helicopter to rescue her. She amplifies the idea of how we can connect with our wild side:

"What comes to me when I'm in the canyon, and what I try to bring home, is that will to live. Not just to survive -- but to live, fully. I think it's so important to be able to stay in touch with that. And it takes work. That will to live: to live your fullness. We can get so disconnected with that. I think we get inhibited because we become afraid of what people are going to think. Or all those signs that say, 'Stop.' So we get quieted."

"At this point of my life, I'm not quiet anymore," Barbi declared. "I can't be silent anymore. We have to live out loud, and be who we are. And if somebody doesn't like us as we are, too bad. The people that are there with you are really with you. It's like the message that the Hopi leader gave at the beginning of the new millennium. He talks about don't hang on to the shore. Go to the middle of the river; and look around, and see who’s there with you. Don’t cling to the shore because that’s basically an illusion. Allow the river to carry you."

This Spring, what river will you let carry you? How will you "live out loud"?