“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free,” Catherine Earnshaw laments in Wuthering Heights. I know this feeling well. I watch my daughter run around picking wildflowers, the wind throwing her long hair into her face as she marvels at the simple magic of untamed plants and I think, how beautiful. When was the last time you frolicked? When was the last time you frolicked with a friend? Adulthood rains on many a childhood parade and although we continue to visit our friends there is all too often a lost sense of play in the relationship.
But we can reclaim it. During this session I watched as these two friends reclaimed play, laughing, dancing, and touching each other as only the best of friends do and I thought, how beautiful. I want to be a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.
