For seven years I’ve been writing mostly three paragraphs and a Bible verse of something interesting, or a shared story, or a quirky thought and sent it forth on a Wednesday night. An article caught my attention in the fall, and I have just spent an hour Googling and Yahooing and trying to bring order out of chaos. SPOILER ALERT. I have a list of one sentence information. Each tidbit could be followed by nevertheless, however, or possibly. So accept my apologies to Wikipedia and the Oxford English Dictionary and to scratching an interest and giving some thought to mycology.
A mycologist, while generally interested in life connected to fungi, can specialize in a variety of topics from slime mole to athlete’s foot to mushrooms. The later is our topic for today. Your knowledge may be the surprise of a vibrant colored mushroom complete with a dome and gills that is gathering nutrients from decomposed matter around the trunk of a tree. Some of these are safe to eat, except, unless an expert, insert , however, because some can be poisonous. I have a personal testimony that portobello burgers can be consumed as protein of the vegan world and you can live to tell about it. Then there are toadstools, mythically created by witches, which have a concave top and a band on their steam clearly proclaiming NOT SAFE! My favorite quote is “consumption can leave you with hallucinations of vivid unicorns or lying in the hospital with liver failure.” You may be a gourmet cook who chooses your fresh mushrooms in a specialty store or you may only buy canned or order as a pizza topping. A few people just like the names: Lion’s mane; oyster, morel; or porcine.
While this commentary is obviously not exhaustive, I do need to bring up the elite second cousin – the truffle. They are the edible spore of a fungi that grows only underground. It is sparse and tasty enough to be in the costly range. Harvesters in the beginning used female pigs to locate except the animals chose to find and devour rather than share, so now dogs are the replacement. A successful Oregon truffle hunter might earn $90.000 to $119,000 for December to March efforts. If you need a Biblical thought, God did give us all plants to enjoy and the same chapter told Adam on his banishment that some gathering would take more effort. I’m just remembering that the “magic button” gave Alice the change in size to have an adventure of which Robert Louis Stevenson could remind us…
The world is so full of a number of things, that we all should be as happy a kings.
A Child’s Garden of Verses
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