About the Author: Lynice Pinkard
Lynice Pinkard was born in Santa Barbara, CA to the late Rev. Daniel Pinkard and Marquita Kinkard. She grew up in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri and finished high school at Skyline High School in Oakland, California.
My ongoing, daily struggle is to be both utterly feral--undomesticatable by the forces in the world that would domesticate all of us, defang us, render us harmless to the powers and principalities-being utterly feral in that way, and also being utterly surrendered. You can't have one without the other. Being undomesticatable depends on moment-to-moment surrender to the Spirit of life and of love. The paradox is that we cannot simultaneously surrender fully AND be in opposition to any living being. Surrender demands love as breathing demands inhalation. At the same time, we DO have to be in opposition to every form of domination, oppression, exploitation, and violence-all of the forces that try to press down life.
