This Edition’s Surprise : Exploring Nature With a New Perspective
The forest knows where you are. You must let it find you.
Hello, and welcome!
Connecting the dots is our way of making sense of the world. We do this by focusing on the often-overlooked aspects of the natural world; a blade of bright green grass, the resilience of fungi, and a lone warbling frog.
This month's theme is discovery and we've turned the theme inwards. We asked ourselves how we make our carefully curated newsletter even more engaging. We've tossed about a few ideas. And we've discovered that we would enjoy writing you a letter.
No, not an email.
A letter.
And not an officious one at that.
This letter is a rambling, maybe rumbunctious, sometimes brambly and always personal letter.
Think of it as shinrin'yoku, the delightful and meditative Japanese practice of forest bathing, the therapeutic act of spending time in a forest.
Together, we will ponder on the natural world, discuss species and developments, ruminate on how we can do better and create plans.
We are aware that time and energy are finite sources; we will send you a letter, twice a month.
And we think and hope that you might like it.
Do watch out for it. And write back, please?
For now, we leave you with this utterly beautiful poem we recently read.
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
- David Wagoner
Write to you, soon.
The team at Mycelium.