In Flaum’s article Find your howl there are two stories, one of which is the story of the Red wolf, Mumon and the deer. While on his journey in finding his howl, Mumon hunts down a deer and before could capture it, the deer stops and speaks with the wolf. The deer asks Mumon how he learned how to hunt, Mumon replies that he didn’t get taught he just knows…the deer tells him that it’s the same way with your howl, something natural and embedded inside you. Then the deer flies only to be finally captured by Mumon and eaten, while Mumon eats he cries, he is ashamed. As he awakes after his nap a raven who finished cleaning the bones of the deer now speaks with Mumon. He tells him not to fine how he must shed himself of the shame he feels for what he is, and that it is the same as feeling shame for being born into this world. Flaum makes through this story the point that in order to survive and move ahead in this world and in life you must accept who we are.
"Pioneers, O'Pioneers" By Walt Whittman
Excerpt from the poem, read by Bryan Floyd
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