Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver I thought the earth remembered me, She took me back so tenderly Arranging her skirts Her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before A stone on the riverbed, Nothing between me and the white fire of the stars, But my thoughts. And they floated lig...

As it turns out, animals and fungi share a common ancestor and branched away from plants at some point about 1.1 billion years ago. It was only later that animals and fungi separated on the genealogical tree of life, making mushrooms more closely related to humans than plants.

‘‘Twas grace that led us safe thus far, and grace shall lead us on.....”

Mushrooms are closer to animals than plants.

If they are MY mushrooms, growing in MY garden I love them because they are mine!

By Jove! I think I’ve got it.

A book of Random Rhymes
May reflect the times
May be a useful tome
But this thread is not it’s home!

Hello Lombardo, I’m afraid I am very critical of ‘Churches’. Not the people who attend but the edifices themselves, full of gold and silver and ornate garments. The opposite of what Jesus taught. If we try to follow the Christian way, and have faith that the spirit of Christ will be with us and help...

Hello crios, If you are going to be completely rational then the very bright and clever atheists on here will win you over. Some of us are believers and we have no rational arguments. Something happens to us and it changes our perception of reality. It makes us look foolish and deluded. However, I t...

Once the Soul Awakens, the Search Begins And You Can Never Go Back From then on You are Inflamed with a Special Longing That will Never Again let You Linger In the Lowlands of Complacency and Partial Fulfillment The Eternal Makes You Urgent - John O'Donohue from "Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wis...

Harry Marks, I could just kiss you! We worship that God, The Economy! So it’s all about now, fast returns, not thinking about future consequences. We had an excellent National Health Service in this country. It didn’t make a profit but if people were ill and suffering, they got treated and we all pa...

Oh wait!! Whoops! My Socialism is showing again.

Quote Unlike you and Penelope, apparently, I put little weight on such moral sentiments. I think they usually arise more from social norms which people pick up, intertwined heavily with assumptions about privilege and status, than from natural empathy and mirror neurons, (much less from biologically...