“Uncover the Mysteries of Nature: A Journey through Lynne Golodner’s ‘Forest Walk on a Friday'”
“Voice,” the final essay in the collection, begins, again, with the body: “I try to speak, and my voice catches, an acorn lodged in my throat.” Golodner has a polyp on her vocal chords, yet she is convinced the issue does not solely rest in the physical: “This isn’t the first time my faltering voice alerted me to an uncomfortable truth.” When Golodner was in her first year of her first marriage, her throat burned and she was, on three occasions, diagnosed with strep. The burning was also diagnostic of something else: “In intuitive medicine, getting sick in your throat means you feel you don’t have a voice.”
