

But we learned to wear the name with pride. Weyward, they called us, when we would not submit, would not bend to their will. It was men who marked us so, in the time when language was but a shoot curling from the earth. We did not need stonemasons to carve our names into rock as proof we had existed.Īll we needed was to be returned to the wild. He is known for his bestselling book Wild at Heart.

Instead, the Weyward bones rested in the woods, in the fells, where our flesh fed plants and flowers, where trees wrapped their roots around our skeletons. John Eldredge is an American author, counselor, and lecturer on Christianity.

Our ancestors-the women who walked these paths before us, before there were words for who they were-did not lie in the barren soil of the churchyard, encased in rotting wood. Why the crows-the ones who carry the sign-watch over us and do our bidding, why their touch brings our abilities into sharpest relief. That is why roots and leaves yield so easily under our fingers, to form tonics that bring comfort and healing. It features Steve Golin Monty Montgomery Sigurjón Sighvatsson as producer, Angelo Badalamenti in charge of musical score, and Frederick Elmes as head of cinematography. The animals, the birds, the plants-they let us in, recognizing us as one of their own. Wild at Heart (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970. We can feel it, she said, the same way we feel rage, sorrow, or joy. There was something about us-the Weyward women-that bonded us more tightly with the natural world.
