The Ghost Trail and the Lone Wolf: On Seeking What Others Have Forgotten

Send us Fan MailIn mid-May 2026, a three-year-old gray wolf named Bae crossed into Sequoia National Park — the first wolf to enter that protected territory in over a century. She has traveled more than 1,000 miles alone across California, following what wildlife biologists call "ghost trails": invisible scent highways broadcast by wolves who vanished from the land a hundred years ago.In this episode, I sit with Bae's remarkable journey and what it means to be the one who goes away — the lone wolf in transit, neither exile nor arrival, following something faint and old through territory that looks empty to the rational eye. I explore the ghost trail as a metaphor for the seeker's life: the creative work with no guaranteed audience, the grief that reaches toward someone gone, the spiritual hunger moving through lineages that have been partially erased.The lone wolf isn't a story of loss. It's a story of continuation — and of what it means to walk into a place that has been waiting for you to return.Includes the original poem "Ghost Trail."https://www.bloomingwand.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@bloomingwand