The Wonder of Fungi…..In the Garden - on-going…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:55 on 06 February 2024
The Wonder of Fungi…..
Another fragment of the wonder that is our world – via Mr. Mac. again…..
" @MerlinSheldrake’s new film, Fungi: Web of Life, narrated by @bjork
(yes, that Bjork) premiered today @BFI IMAX. It is…astonishing. Wonder-striking. The time-lapse microscopy footage of fungal growth & running mycelium is a landmark in natural history filming. Seek it out."
And it includes the wonder that is Bjork.....
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/05/25/the-wonder-that-is-bjork/
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In The Garden - on-going…..
An explanation…..
A few years ago Mike and I were walking at Newark Bay, where archaeologists and volunteers were trying to hold back the sea from a ‘site’ which is being eaten away…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/01/24/newark-bay-life-on-the-edge-of-the-ocean/
As we walked along, I picked up a plastic baby doll’s arm from the tide-line, and put it in my pocket. After we’d been to see the work in progress, we met a couple of young archaeologists in the car park. I said to the lass – “We found a baby’s arm on the beach” and reached into my pocket…..her face!
I then got out the plastic baby’s arm.
When we got home I placed it in a sink we have in the garden – around which I keep placing ‘finds’.
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Elizabeth Rush
“I wanted to stand alongside this unstable glacier, wanted to witness freshly formed bergs dropping down into the ocean like stones, so that I might know in my body what my mind still struggled to grasp.”
“Thwaites Glacier—often dubbed the “doomsday glacier”—is roughly the size of Florida and functions as a plug in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. At current rates, the glacier is losing about fifty billion tons more ice than is being replenished by snowfall each year. If, or when, it collapses entirely, it will drop billions of tons of ice into the Amundsen Sea, triggering half a meter of sea level rise and opening the potential for another three meters of coastline-engulfing sea rise from the surrounding ice sheet. Recognizing the ways this will alter human civilization, scientists are doing what they can to try and uncover the glacier’s plans for us.
In January of 2019, writer Elizabeth Rush traveled aboard the first shipbound expedition to Thwaites. It was the first year the sea ice had melted enough for a ship to get right up close to the glacier’s face. Imagining that this proximity might give her greater access to the messages embedded in its shifts and shatterings, she tries to look, to listen, for what Thwaites has to say. But can something so vast, so ancient, ever really be witnessed at the scale we consider up close, in the moment we consider right now?”
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