23.10.23 - Shrooms!!!

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Rushing water...

Fairy castle

Enoki, apparently

Turkey tails

Honey fungus

Attended the first regional Forest School gathering! It's very interesting... word is about that teachers who do a certain FS training don't really do a 'proper' hands on training. 

Well what can say? I have been doing it for eleven years now continuously, so you know, really, I don't think I need too much training anymore. But yesterday I learnt how to ID mushrooms... would I SHOW children how to forage? No, absolutely not. Was it good for me? Yes totally.

I have noticed that I am quite a neurotic person. Is everyone just as neurotic I wonder? I have this really strong antipathy capacity - but once you make it past that, it is quite sympathetic. However making it past that, that's a different story.

The boys came over and I finally got the salt and chilli chicken recipe right... it just came together, esply the crispy bit. It is now proper KFC standard levels of crispiness. There are no great insights.

The mess which the Middle East is in now, the rest of the world is in now, well, it just goes to show that learning, intelligence, wealth, 'progress' technology, has nothing to do with creating a livable, kind and caring society. It has nothing to do with whether we succeed as a human race.

Anthony said something very interesting in his last letter - that he hoped I was very busy because at least that would distract me from the mess the world was in. It just seems crazy doesn't it that the people who have been seeing the mess and trying to clean it up or stop it from getting worse - we know we have now more or less lost the war. The only thing we can do is make sure that we minimise our part in the collective responsibility. Could I have lived with myself if I just went along with what they had in mind? No, not really. I would have become an asshole. As it is I already have the capacity for being an asshole. So thank god the road less traveled is the one which I took.

Right. Time to get things together.

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