WolfKid Update
Happy timezone, wonderful Wolfenati. I thought it may be worth giving you all just a small insight into the kid who made all of this happen. He was seven when he told me about Wolfenoot for the first time, and accidentally started a global revolution of kindness and animals. He is eleven now.
He plays the piano, he loves musical theatre. He spent a good twenty minutes yesterday rescuing a monarch caterpillar and returning it to the swan plant it had fallen from, so that it could eat in safety and become a butterfly. This is not unusual. He often speaks to small things - bees, bugs, birds. I tell you this not to brag (okay, a little bit to brag), but to show that this kid who made a holiday about kindness still practices kindness to small living things.
He loves animals, unsurprisingly. His best furfriend is our cat Ghost, who we have had since he was a kitten. Ghost likes kids more than adults, and the wolfkid and him can often be seen just hanging out together.
Our Wolfkid has a wild imagination - he is always coming up with stories, ideas, monsters for dnd games. He reads AVIDLY. Consumes books at an astonishing rate. Produces stories at a similarly astonishing rate.
He’s fascinated by geography and history. He knows a ridiculous amount about obscure European wars through the years, and can reliably identify many countries on a world map - certainly more than I can. We play Globle, and I find myself saying to him “What’s in this gap?” and he KNOWS. I don’t where he learnt this stuff, but his knowledge on this subject is pretty damned impressive to me.
He has inherited his Momma’s love of international folklore, and has read many of the various obscure collections of fairy and folktales I have gathered in my library.
He likes the usual eleven year old things too - you know, gaming, chocolate. He prefers to buy chocolate that is ethically made, though, which is, if I am honest, probably a product of my attitudes. ;)
He is a good kid, and watching him teeter on the edge of adolescence, one moment a child still, the next a preteen, I am so proud of this small human I have had a part in shaping. You should all be too. I know we tend to keep him private - with good reason, I still think. But I’m opening the window just a little to give you a snapshot. He is doing you proud, Wolfpack.
