I am a wild, wandering nomad, I belong everywhere and nowhere all at the same time, and in that gap between worlds, I am free.-Riitta Klint The wild winds called to her soul and through the ground she felt the thundering hooves of freedom. But we learned to wear the name with pride. I don’t want to because I don’t have the energy to fix what is broken within. 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. Tennessee Williams Quote: A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

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. Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sheryl Lee, Randy Thom, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern. 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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