Oh Christmas Creels’……From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……
by Bernie Bell - 08:39 on 08 December 2025
‘Oh Christmas Creels’……
Into Stromness to see The Creel Tree….
….with a crab on top!
The fishing floats along the railings are in memory of folk who have passed from this life – very fitting for a town which looks to the sea…..
A very Christmassy Lifeboats building, which has a gizmo that sends little spots of light dancing across the pavement!…
‘Hark the Herald Angels’ at the Quernstone – SHOP LOCAL!......
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
Mycelial Networks, Mutualism, and Symbiosis
An Interview with Merlin Sheldrake
“I think they offer so many fertile avenues for thinking because they represent such a different way to be alive, a different way to solve problems, a different way to rise to the challenge of living.”
In this conversation, acclaimed mycologist and author Merlin Sheldrake traces how mycelial networks offer not only an astounding biological model of connectivity, but also a doorway out of our well-worn assumptions about individuality, decision-making, processes of exchange, and crisis. While we tend to navigate uncertainty through binaries, fear, and control, mycelium works from a place of relationality. How can using our imaginations, which Merlin calls our most mycelial-like tool, tap our potential for reshaping and forming new relationships with other living things? Embracing a mycelial way of thinking, could we also build flexible ecological, social, or structural systems that are rooted in mutuality? Merlin invites us to dwell within the substrate of mystery that fungi embody and receive “the beauties that bubble up” from this liminal space, as it’s there that new ways of being emerge.
https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/the-substrate-of-mystery/
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My own thoughts on fungi...
https://frontiersmagazine.org/fungi-the-good-the-bad-and-the-edible/
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