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"Phenomenal, to be such a small, weak, short-lived being on a planet with billions of years left to run." - Richard Powers, The Overstory A compulsive reader nurturing an obsession with fungi.
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'Small' nature. Several different lichen on a twig :-) #fungifriends #lichen #photography

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Stemonitopsis typhina #slimemold

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

There is so much to love about @quammen.bsky.social's The Song of the Dodo, but I am particularly enjoying how he intersperses a wealth of information on island biogeography, evolution, and extinction with moments of levity. And dad jokes.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Moss decorated with a bright orange slime mold. Northwest Territories, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #slimemould #fungifriends

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

I love being alive on this planet

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I was delaying starting intermezzo because I love Sally Rooney's other works so much I was afraid of being disappointed in this one. Instead, I'm again impressed at how she renders the hidden tenderness of people who love deeply but struggle to say it aloud. Very much want to give Ivan a hug.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously #hotstick spotted while walking up Gilboa mountain in the Karkloof!

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Being a good friend is reminding them Jordan Peterson is an alleged Russian propagandist.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I spent some time reflecting on where I am this new year.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

When I say this tree was foaming with orchids!

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Some beautiful fungi from a walk through my local park yesterday. #fungifriends

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

submitted 73 days ago • 789 comments

Just started Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel. It's the forth book of hers I've read and I'm perpetually in awe of how she manages to create such a frictionless, immersive reading experience. It looks effortless but I'm certain it's not. #booksky

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

There was a time in my life when I viewed exercise as punishment and I worked really hard to change that relationship so after many months of not being able to move the way I want because of cancer treatment, it's amazing to be in a place in life where movement = joy again!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Just completed my final session of radiation! 🎉🎉🎉

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

If the events of this week and the reality of the Private Healthcare Industry have shown us anything, it is that we need to think about other ways of doing things.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

How much of the ongoing discussion around + desire to fit Luigi Mangione into the "good guy folk hero" box comes from the fact that he is conventionally attractive? Like, if he were a little less hot, would he still dominate our timelines or would this story have already been buried by other news?

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Embroidery helps, though

submitted 81 days ago • 255 comments

Essentially, I didn't survive cancer to give up on my aspirations. Don't let the bastards grind you down!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday I learned that my applications for PhD funding were rejected. Spent most of the day crying. Today, I woke up determined to find some other way to make it happen. The whole experience put me in mind of this glorious Bake Off moment. Got rejected, had a breakdown, bon appetite!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Just discovered #HotStickSaturday is a thing… here are a few from lockdown when #lichen #moss & #twigs helped me so much

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

The vast majority of us when the gas industry tells us we need to burn more fossil fuels to solve climate change

submitted 84 days ago • 19 comments

Love a moody seascape while running. There was so much spray it felt like I was breathing in salt!

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Got through a whole week of radiation, which so far is a lot less challenging than chemo. Every time I'm strapped down under the machine, I'm amazed that these short minutes exposed to something so otherwise hazardous are going to make it very hard for my DNA to mess up again.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Omg nature nerd/botany nerd alert: Robin Wall Kimmerer released a new book!!! 🌱 www.robinwallkimmerer.com/books

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Another poem that makes me go wow, someone else felt that? #poetry #booksky #adalimon

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I'm lucky enough to have a great great grandfather who, at the end of his life, decided to record his travels as a sailor. In addition to train-hopping across Canada and the US and stowing away on a ship to Jamaica, he saw sharks and manta rays huge enough to unsettle even seasoned seafarers.

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Every year I look forward to nectarine season, and every year I am reminded why their name literally means "nectar like".

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