Building a mushroom raft

The mailbox this Satyr's day morning in TulseyTown is filling with rain . . .

To advance from where you can no longer advance and to do what can no longer be done, you must make yourself into a raft or ferryboat for others. —Mazu Daoyi

No tree branches, terminal or not, exist without their root brain tucked into soil and slipped into the teeming plurality of a forest wide mycorrhizal consciousness. . . .Knowing a stone is alive keeps me alive. – Sophie Strand

Sophie and Merlin Sheldrake are two major contributors to what is sometimes being referred to as “radical ecology” which is challenging and transforming not only biology but science. While Strand tends to use metaphor as the material for her ontological lens, Sheldrake is using the tools of science – think laser powered 3D photography in real time. If I've peaked your curiosity with this brief, take a look at Sheldrake discussing his book, 'Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures' (Random House), with bestselling writer Helen Macdonald, author of 'H is for Hawk'.

McDonald is also a poet. Her collection Shaler's Fish. was published in 2016 by Atlantic Monthly Press in a reissue edition (February 2, 2016)

A solitary boat is making its way without oars in the dim moonlight. When I turn my head, I see waterweed motionless on the ancient river bank. —Keizan Jokin

Born Yesterday

Born again today

and again just a moment ago.

If you look close you might

see me yet again

emerging between these words.

– 8.5.23 jb