It's said that if you are lucky enough to be lost in the Mexican desert, you might as well find her.

La huesera is a woman who wanders collecting bones, especially wolf ones. After completing a skeleton she sings, and carried by the wind and the secrets of the unknown, through her voice the bones are now flesh, blood, tissue. The bones become a wolf, running down the sand. Those who look long enough can see it moving, chasing the moon, as it transforms into a woman running free into the horizon.

For Jung, archetypes represent patterns of our own psyche, and that's the core of what Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes brings to her book (Women who run with wolves) - the recovery of feminine archetypes long forgotten but that are powerful tools to reconnect us with our own bones and songs.

La huesera is usually represented as an old woman, for it's also the archetype of a crone, the one who knows. The collector who observes, gathers, connects meaning that turns bones into wolves. In my version I play around with a different representation, where youth and wisdom meet, where the freshness of a ripe body contrasts with the old bones of forgotten souls. She sings, and from her song there's a howling, there's air and breath, there's life.

May we be wise and loving, may we navigate our deserts and look for our bones, our truth, ourselves. May our lips always carry songs of life, change and comfort. May we soon be able to run free and stronger, grateful for blessings we learned from our own old bones.

May what's ahead be the time for our collective song for life.