Deep within the mythic imagination of the Desert Southwest, La Loba—Wolf Woman—gathers the buried forgotten bones of Wolf, singing them back to life again. Today, a 700-mile steel U.S. Mexico border wall cuts through this ancient landscape, disrupting wildlife movement and human migration, inviting us to reflect on whether borders protect or harm, stirring deeper questions about security, sovereignty, and national identity. Yet the wall is only one expression of a deeper condition: a world increasingly shaped by fracture, division, and polarization—like a body of bones scattered beyond recognition, awaiting the one who might learn to see their relation again. What might La Loba offer us today if her voice were invited into this contemporary conversation? When the world stands at a threshold, the questions living inside our oldest stories return to meet us —offering what they have always carried, if we are ready to listen.
Read MoreCarving Memory, Gathering Bones, Singing Her
La Huesera, the ancient folktale of the mythical Bone Woman of the desert southwest, wanders the arroyos gathering scattered bones of wolves, singing over them until they reassemble and return to life. Bone Woman’s song is sung the world over, it is the mythic medicine we can heal from if we dare to gather what’s been forgotten and scattered together into the same circle of honoring. This is Old Story Medicine, the elixir She offers from her sacred cauldron when the world seems starved of connection, and in need of healing and repair.
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