"Often the world around us feels dark and alone, and our hearts cry out for peace, love, stillness, and joy. Yet we forget that we are always surrounded kwa light and warmth and it is already ours. We just have to reach out for it."

I alisema as I looked out among my gathered pack.

"The men fear us and our beasts because they do not understand the beast inside themselves. The savage part of them that they deny. The part that is zaidi like us. They cannot stand it, so they reject us and themselves. They hurt us and hunt us out of fear that is all."

As he alisema this, a mbwa mwitu ,old in the pack, approached...