Planting the Wild Again: When the world fell quiet, they began to listen

By Davilyn Atwood

This is not a tale of doom.
There are no zombies clawing at doors. No desperate raids. No fearsome militias imposing cruelty.
Instead, this is the story of something quieter. Something stronger.
A soft apocalypse, if you will - not because it wasn't devastating, but because, in the absence of noise and power and the distractions of the old world, what rose was a whisper of resilience. A return to what matters most.
It began with a pandemic. Then came economic collapse. Then natural disasters that felt biblical in their precision and persistence. The world cracked open. But instead of crumbling entirely, some places, some people, chose to rebuild.
At the center of one such place was the Bitter Sweet Herbal School...

Journal Reflection:
Some things we build with hands.
Others we build with hope.
This place - Bitter Sweet - is not perfect.
But it is living. And that means it breathes, aches, adapts.
We are not here to return to what was.
We are here to become what might be.
I look around and see people who carry flame in quiet ways -
A girl who speaks to trees.
A boy who listens to birds.
A woman who braids story into bread.
A healer who still aches for his son and shows up anyway.
If this is the end of a season, let it be one that ends with truth.
If this is the beginning of another, let it be one that begins with trust.
The fire does not ask us to be fearless.
Only to stay.
Only to feel.
Only to tend it together.
And so we will.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHBFRGG6
• ISBN13: 9798291968864
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"