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Stoneshins

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A silly wizard looking for tomes of knowledge, big fan of Robin Wall-Kimmerer, the Monk and Robot novellas, and radical theory and anthropology with an anti-authoritarian bend

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Robin Wall Kimmerer: Gathering Moss (Paperback, 2021, Oregon State University Press) 4 stars

Gathering Moss is a series of personal essays introducing the reader to the life cycle, …

A fantastic look at the wee little mossy worlds all around us. It is a tad repetitive in places, the essays build off each other but can stand alone quite well. I would recommend reading in audio book because of the interesting linguistic fact that most mosses do not have common names so its fairly Latin heavy and my brain refuses to parse Latin in a way that's anywhere close to correct. With imagery that is lush and full of love for the living world, Kimmerer shows us a radical path to "looking at the world through moss colored glasses". big fan, get ye a hand lense and this book, and go touch some moss friend