Faerie Mushroom Connection_Goblin Feet

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Poem by
J.R.R. Tolkien,

I am off down the road
Where the fairy lanterns glowed
And the little pretty flitter-mice are flying
A slender band of gray
It runs creepily away
And the hedges
and the grasses are a-sighing.
The air is full of wings,
And of blundery beetle-things
That warn you with their whirring
and their humming.
O! I hear the tiny horns
Of enchanted leprechauns
And the padded feet
of many gnomes a-coming!
O! the lights! O! the gleams! O! the little twinkly sounds!
O! the rustle of their noiseless little robes!
O! the echo of their feet - of their happy little feet!
O! the swinging lamps in the starlit globes.

I must follow in their train
Down the crooked fairy lane
Where the coney-rabbits long ago have gone.
And where silvery they sing
In a moving moonlit ring
All a twinkle with the jewels they have on.
They are fading round the turn
Where the glow worms palely burn
And the echo of their padding feet is dying!
O! it’s knocking at my heart–

Let me go! let me start!
For the little magic hours are all a-flying.

O! the warmth! O! the hum! O! the colors in the dark!
O! the gauzy wings of golden honey-flies!
O! the music of their feet - of their dancing goblin feet!
O! the magic! O! the sorrow when it dies.

FAERIES AND MUSHROOMS
WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
WELL, WHEN THE POEM MENTIONS…

… oh the sorrow when it dies.

THIS MAKES ME
FEEL THAT…

That is what it would have been like
450 million years ago
SORROW-full

(at least for me)
as there were
no flowers,
trees,
plants
with leaves,
or
animals
of
any kind
upon the land.

only mosses
blanketed and softened
the
lava fields.

very simple
plants
with no leaves
or roots

incredibly
managed to
cling to the
edges of streams.

Because
they had no way
of storing
or transporting
nourishment,
they
were limited to
stay by the
water’s edge.

fungi
helped
bring into being
a whole new world,
not only
for the
simplest of plants,
but
all life
that followed,
including us!

cooperating
with
fungi,
allowed them
to THRIVE!

They began
respiring,
drawing in
carbon dioxide
exhaling
oxygen.

THIS
LITERALLY
gave
the
earth
its’
FIRST BREATH
of
fresh air!

over time
this
process
changed
the
COMPOSITION
of the
ENTIRE
ATMOSPHERE
of earth.

IT
OPENED
the
DOOR
of
Evolution
for
MORE
COMPLEX
PLANTS
with
leaves and roots.

In turn,
this allowed plants
to grow
LARGER
and upon the
GROUND.

Since then,
98%
of
ALL PLANTS
have been
NURTURED
by this
symbiotic
relationship
with fungi.

PLANTS HAVE
allowed fungi
to
grow between
their cells;
even
within
their cells.

through
this relationship,
they
gain
benefits.

FYInterest,
broccoli
is one plant
that
does not
have this
relationship
with
fungi.

WITHOUT
FUNGI
WE
WOULDN’T
BE
HERE.