926 Raindrops - Gift of the Wild
()
About this ebook
Have you ever lost yourself, and then found yourself again? Behind her eyes, there is a story. Behind her pain, there is peace. Behind her story, there is a lesson. The true story about the wild bond between a girl and Yellowstone Wolf 926F. Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion and purpose in life. Have the courage to follow them. Let nature be your guide.
Gloria Straube Straube
Gloria Straube is devoted to giving her readers a story filled with a nature-inspired wanderlust for all things wild, entangled with fate and a twist of true love. In honor of the restoration of wolves back into Yellowstone National Park in 1995, Gloria has become a passionate advocate for better protection for the wolves and grizzly bears that call the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem home. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is one of the last remaining large, nearly intact ecosystems located within the Northern Rocky Mountains. She has been involved with wolf issues and wolf organizations for over ten years. Gloria is committed to using her voice for these voiceless animals in the constant battle for better protection and coexistence. A lifetime observer of nature, she spends most of her free time studying the behavior of wolves and grizzly bears in the wild, quietly earning herself a coveted ethology background. Through her observations and personal stories, Gloria hopes to better inform the public on understanding the full importance of top predators to the ecosystem. Gloria has a Bachelor of Science (B.S) degree from Emerson College. She is happily married to Andy and has three young sons: Bennett, Luke, and Harrison.
Related to 926 Raindrops - Gift of the Wild
Related ebooks
926 Raindrops - Gift of the Wild Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Time for Fear: My Path to Awakening Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBroken No More: A True Story of Abuse, Amnesia, and Finding God’s Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow I Discovered My Mother Was a Goddess: A Daughter's Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gift of Tears Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Purely Wrong Story: Escaping Sexual Shame, Exposing a Game-Changer, and Editing Your Life Story without Changing the Facts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journey: Bare Essence of Me: Naked in the Middle of the Street Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions of a Bone Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gracefully Raw Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlue Star: Fulfilling Prophecy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ghost Chaser: The Curse of Steel: Ghost Chaser, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsButterfly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFellowship of the Snow Leopards: The Journey Begins Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecrets of the Slough Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbove the Darkness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThrough a Mother's Eyes: Poems of Love, Loss and Moving Forward Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShattered Windows: Stella Rose All Day, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSessions: The Purrfect Accident Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChanging Horses: One Woman's Journey Through Horse Racing, Horse Rescue, and Horse Reflection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeaven’s Back Door: What I learned When I Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blood Wolf: The Legend Begins Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMessages from Spirit: Breathtaking insights into life and the afterlife Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Warrior Inside Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Final Battle; A Fable for all Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf I Denounce My Accent Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Baby Blue Frog Prince: a Fairytale Reality of Becoming Happily Ever After Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Absence of Ants Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMelancholy of the Heart - Echoes on the Wind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutlawed Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Imagination Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
YA Biography & Autobiography For You
Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The V-Word: True Stories about First-Time Sex Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Street Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Little Words: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sacajawea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elena Vanishing: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Inside: A True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Doll's House Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Real Name is Hanna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Farewell to Manzanar Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSteve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Michelle Obama: An American Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resilient Black Girl: 52 Weeks of Anti-Racist Activities for Black Joy and Resilience Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for 926 Raindrops - Gift of the Wild
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
926 Raindrops - Gift of the Wild - Gloria Straube Straube
Acknowledgments
Iwould like to express my special thanks of gratitude to Dr. Jane Goodall and Mr. Rick McIntyre.
I FEEL IT’S REALLY important to reach the heart because people have got to change from within. They’ve got to change because they want to change. And if you batter at them and try to blind them with science, they don’t want to listen to you. But if you can quietly tell a story, then you may reach the heart. And that’s when people change.
-Dr. Jane Goodall, Primatologist
THIS BLACK WOLF IS the alpha female of the Lamar Canyon Pack. She is the daughter of the most famous wolf in the world, 832F. Consider yourself rewarded.
-Rick McIntyre, NPS Wolf Interpreter (Ret.), Author
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Tadpoles and Rain
The Shark
The Wolves
Losing Rain
Alone in Yellowstone
Returning and Learning
Farewell Wolf 926
The Gift
From Key West to Cooke City
Epilogue
About the Author
Gloria Straube is devoted to giving her readers a story filled with a nature-inspired wanderlust for all things wild, entangled with fate and a twist of true love.
In honor of the restoration of wolves back into Yellowstone National Park in 1995, Gloria has become a passionate advocate for better protection for the wolves and grizzly bears that call the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem home. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is one of the last remaining large, nearly intact ecosystems located within the Northern Rocky Mountains. She has been involved with wolf issues and wolf organizations for over ten years. Gloria is committed to using her voice for these voiceless animals in the constant battle for better protection and coexistence. A lifetime observer of nature, she spends most of her free time studying the behavior of wolves and grizzly bears in the wild, quietly earning herself a coveted ethology background. Through her observations and personal stories, Gloria hopes to better inform the public on understanding the full importance of top predators to the ecosystem.
Gloria has a Bachelor of Science (B.S) degree from Emerson College.
She is happily married to Andy and has three young sons: Bennett, Luke, and Harrison.
Tadpoles and Rain
Igrew up in Key West , Florida. The island of Key West is about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, with a total land area of 4.2 square miles. It lies at the southernmost end of U.S. Route 1, the longest north-south road in the United States. The southernmost point in the continental United States ending at mile marker one. I grew up with a challenging background, not having a normal childhood like most kids. One thing you learn early on when you are exposed to a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination group with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity is that true paradise seems much farther away. The self does not exist. You have to deny yourself. Psychologically, self-denial is unhealthy. And no, it’s not just about being humble. It goes above and beyond that. As a child, all those little things that could make you feel worthwhile, valuable, and important are taken away one by one. Celebrating your birthday is to put yourself forward as if it were almost narcissistic to celebrate the day of your birth. A child with a strong denial of self will have a hard time accomplishing anything of consequence in life. In the end, because the denial of self is unnatural, the child who is taught to deny himself or herself will feel diminished and non-existent. Cognitive dissonance is the conflict that happens in your brain when facts and beliefs do not match. Extended exposure to cognitive dissonance can induce an emotional reaction that may grow more uncontrollably over time. Not having a normal childhood, I knew I was different.
I longed for the petite slivers of happiness. Most of the time, life seemed like nothing but a prison cell. During thunderstorms, I would be standing out on the streets when the other kids would sit at home, horrified by the lightning that could fall upon them. The clouds would turn gray and frightening, but I would stand there fearless and look forward to dancing in the rain. With the rain, I felt like I had somehow absconded from the iron cage in which I was held captive. My mind would be at peace, as with the raindrops, the sadness and feelings of being trapped would wash away. I would stand there without knowing that I had been having the best time of my life.
With the rain, the thoughts that I had buried deep down in my heart would sway back up to my head, constantly prompting me about the things that I had lacked. They were the ceaseless souvenirs of everything I had desired and planned to do yet failed to chase. The rain helped cleanse my sadness and helped me feel connected to everything I was supposed to connect to. I had dreams that I thought I could not achieve, I had ambitions that I believed unattainable, and I had expectations from my future that I believed would turn into despairs and miseries. And thereby, I pretended. I pretended everything was going exactly as planned and anticipated. For most kids, the divine purposes of their existence and lives are their ambitions, the things they have obsessed over. For me, it was only isolation and no inspiration to be found anywhere nearby.
My family had loved me unconditionally and without limits, but I knew not how to control the way I felt. It seemed like a void was yet to be filled, but I had no idea how it would be filled. It was like my heart had been impaired beyond any sort of amendment. Since the beginning, I had been different from the kids of my age – what had terrified them had given me pleasure. Subsequently, I was typically found alone, either playing in the rain or gazing at the exquisiteness that nature had to offer.
While