Hiking the Trail Home

[. . .]It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be. [*] Those are the closing lines of Wild, an autobiographical book by Cheryl Strayed that I read earlier this year. First published in 2012, that book rose to the number 1 status on the New York Times best-seller list, and was also…