Walking Nature Home : A Life's Journey / Susan J. Tweit ; illustrated by Sherrie York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tweit, Susan J., author.

Contributor:

York, Sherrie, illustrator.

Series:

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series.

Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mixed connective tissue disease--Patients--United States--Biography.

Mixed connective tissue disease.

Naturalists--United States--Biography.

Naturalists.

Tweit, Susan J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 177 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Offers the reader a constellation of healing stories... Powerful articulations of the human heart... Overlaid with the stories of the natural world" (Denise Chávez, author of A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food, and Culture ). Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in two to five years. Offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional medicine, Tweit turned to the natural world that was both her solace and her field of study as a plant ecologist. Drawing intuitive connections between the natural processes and cycles she observed and the functions of her body, Tweit not only learned healthier ways of living but also discovered a great truth-love can heal. In this beautifully written, moving memoir, she describes how love of the natural world, of her husband and family, and of life itself literally transformed and saved her own life. In tracing the arc of her life from young womanhood to middle age, Tweit tells stories about what silence and sagebrush, bird bones and sheep dogs, comets, death, and one crazy Englishman have to teach us about living. She celebrates making healthy choices, the inner voices she learned to hear on days alone in the wilderness, the joys of growing and eating an organic kitchen garden, and the surprising redemption in restoring a once-blighted neighborhood creek. Linking her life lessons to the stories she learned in childhood about the constellations, Tweit shows how qualities such as courage, compassion, and inspiration draw us together and bind us into the community of the land and of all living things.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

ONE. Orion

TWO. Aries

THREE. Virgo

FOUR. Cancer

FIVE. The Big Dipper

SIX. The Pleiades

SEVEN. Leo

EIGHT. The Milky Way

NINE. Orion Again

Notes, Inspiration, and Resources

Other Sources.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292773721

0292773722

9781441622952

1441622950

OCLC:

451643345