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THE OTHER SIDE: Witches burning (Part One)

As we have learned over the centuries, when it comes to burning witches, it doesn’t really matter if you have burned a real witch or just someone who, in your fevered, partisan, and paranoid imagination, could easily become a witch in the future. It is the burning that is the message.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 21: The forest is a nomad

And perhaps that’s one of the problems with civilization. It unrests the soul.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 17: Ghosts

So Lily and I left the tree and went to my favorite spot, a rock beside Yokum Brook where the water tumbles beneath my feet, and I reflect on the various complexities of life.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 16: The ecology of acorns and ticks: Once bitten, twice shy

Once home, chagrinned, I glanced at my insect-shield clothing lying unworn in its basket and my bug spray unsprayed on the mudroom windowsill. I had been tromping full-tilt through a New England forest in the height of tick season with no protection whatsoever.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 10: An incandescence of mushrooms

Within minutes, I saw a bright orange flash in my left eye. There, maybe 20 feet away, deep in the ferns, the wavy scalloped shelves of chicken of the woods blazed in the morning sun.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 5: City on a Hill

Oh, no—keep her off my mushroom city. My adored little dog has become a Godzilla threatening Gotham.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 4: Embrace

So can trees communicate? Yes, they can. Can they love each other? I can only answer that question with another. What is love?

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 2: Varnish cap mushrooms and hollow stumps

There they were, with many names: varnish cap, Reishi, and most exotic, Lingzhi, beloved mushroom of Chinese emperors for 2000 years.

2018 Year of the Mushroom: A hot, moist year produces overabundance of delectable fungi

Mushrooms are FASCINATING. AND BIZARRE. There are countless varieties that come in all colors (even blue and purple!), sci-fi shapes and perplexing consistencies (some are essentially slime).

Addiction in the Berkshires, Chapter 1: Sara’s story

"When I was younger, I was an A student, in the 98th percentile on all the tests. I did ballet. You wouldn’t have thought I would end up the way I did. All my teachers thought I had a lot of promise and would do well in life."

Mahler’s Symphony No. 3:  A View from the Forest

Two nights ago, the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood performed Mahler’s third symphony, a large, rambling, ambitious work by a young composer who had recently lost his sister and mother, suffered poor health, and whose intense love of nature offered him meaning and comfort.
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