So what I felt at that time was this kind of confusion. You include a quote from “Wild” that ends with “Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.” How did your trek help you find clarity? And this applies to so many parts of life too. And now I look back and think I’m so glad that I was brave enough to break my own heart - and I wish that I had been braver sooner because maybe I would have broken his a little less. And so I needed to leave him, even though there were huge parts of me that wanted to stay. … In my case, in my first marriage I did love my husband, but I didn’t want to be married to him. But we learned to wear the name with pride.I’ve learned over and over in my life that there are so many times where you actually have to make a choice that’s hard for you in order to make your life better. Weyward, they called us, when we would not submit, would not bend to their will. It was men who marked us so, in the time when language was but a shoot curling from the earth. We did not need stonemasons to carve our names into rock as proof we had existed.Īll we needed was to be returned to the wild. Instead, the Weyward bones rested in the woods, in the fells, where our flesh fed plants and flowers, where trees wrapped their roots around our skeletons.
Our ancestors-the women who walked these paths before us, before there were words for who they were-did not lie in the barren soil of the churchyard, encased in rotting wood. Why the crows-the ones who carry the sign-watch over us and do our bidding, why their touch brings our abilities into sharpest relief. That is why roots and leaves yield so easily under our fingers, to form tonics that bring comfort and healing. The animals, the birds, the plants-they let us in, recognizing us as one of their own. We can feel it, she said, the same way we feel rage, sorrow, or joy. There was something about us-the Weyward women-that bonded us more tightly with the natural world.
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