I am so in love with your writing and newsletter! I keep forwarding it to my friends and hope they sign up. The poem was touching and I'm going to buy that lichen book.
Yes, I remember the Mandelbrot set, and have been obsessed with fractals, crop circles, the Serpentine Mound, and labyrinths for decades.
Do you know about Pando, the forest of quaking Aspen in Utah? 100 acres, an estimated 66,000 tons, between 85,000 and 1 million years old, and the largest living organism on Earth (that we know of so far.) Why living organism? Because the Pando forest turned out to be one tree. She's a clonal grove with every tree having the same DNA as the original mother tree. I find that freaking awesome!
Last thing (no, I don't have ADHD. I'm a polymath and my mind is like a fractal.) I want to give a shout-out to the Theodore Payne Foundation. I visited as part of an eco-tour and keep sending people there. I know you're based in Oakland, but if you or your readers get to visit SoCal, skip Disneyland (heretical, I know, but spend that large money on plants) and go to the Foundation: https://theodorepayne.org/
Gah, yes, Pando! There’s a great passage in the Lichen book I linked where Palmer talks about the lichen self being “plural.” I love that concept.
I also think about all the flowering cultivated cherry trees across Japan and the US—they came from a handful of trees propagated wildly. A very different kind of self, more distributed than plural. But that has always blown my mind, too.
Thank you for reading (and sharing). May all your friends subscribe.
Thank you for sharing. You have given me starting points to launch deeper into the world of lichens and this poetry book.
I am so in love with your writing and newsletter! I keep forwarding it to my friends and hope they sign up. The poem was touching and I'm going to buy that lichen book.
Yes, I remember the Mandelbrot set, and have been obsessed with fractals, crop circles, the Serpentine Mound, and labyrinths for decades.
Do you know about Pando, the forest of quaking Aspen in Utah? 100 acres, an estimated 66,000 tons, between 85,000 and 1 million years old, and the largest living organism on Earth (that we know of so far.) Why living organism? Because the Pando forest turned out to be one tree. She's a clonal grove with every tree having the same DNA as the original mother tree. I find that freaking awesome!
Last thing (no, I don't have ADHD. I'm a polymath and my mind is like a fractal.) I want to give a shout-out to the Theodore Payne Foundation. I visited as part of an eco-tour and keep sending people there. I know you're based in Oakland, but if you or your readers get to visit SoCal, skip Disneyland (heretical, I know, but spend that large money on plants) and go to the Foundation: https://theodorepayne.org/
Gah, yes, Pando! There’s a great passage in the Lichen book I linked where Palmer talks about the lichen self being “plural.” I love that concept.
I also think about all the flowering cultivated cherry trees across Japan and the US—they came from a handful of trees propagated wildly. A very different kind of self, more distributed than plural. But that has always blown my mind, too.
Thank you for reading (and sharing). May all your friends subscribe.