Well, I suppose parasites are part of the wild...
Here is another person following the call of the wiilllld, following the call of the wild:
For seven years, Miriam Lancewood and her husband Peter have lived a nomadic life - she is the hunter and he is the cook.
And as he is nearly 40 years older than she is, that strikes me as an equitable and sensible division of labour, no?
However, they do not entirely eschew the products of civilisation (quite apart from the being interviewed for The Observer and writing A Book, rather than Being In The Now - It was Miriam who carried the big hunting knife and knew how to use their Steyr Mannlicher .308 rifle....
Their home is a khaki-green tubular three-person tent with two sleeping bags in it, sleeping pads and two rucksacks neatly packed with rudimentary supplies. Food and utensils are arranged on the grass: enamel mugs, a black prospector’s plate....
[W]orking out by the spoonful exactly how much flour, pulses, tea bags they’d need
Also I am not sure that those beans bubbling in the iron pot are something that one could forage in the woods?
But the real kicker is this, and in my humble, why more women are not leading the back-to-nature existence: They never intend to have children and rely on another modern innovation - Miriam’s IUD - to make sure they don’t. They say it would be impossible to live in the wild with kids. So are kids a trap? “For us it would be a trap,” says Miriam. “You have to have a regular income. You have to settle down.”
That little detail makes it somewhat less remarkable that those women that are drawn to her vision are 'usually aged between 40 and 50': maybe it's not about their life unlived but the one that now seems possible? This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2683279.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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