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Memories of the Congolese rainforest.
Weeping spruce is beautiful in a disrepaired way: like a mother who never ties her shoelaces, never combs her hair. I’ve been reading Suzanne Simard’s studies of how firs and birches exchange carbon through the seasons via fungi, a giving and a taking. Simard doesn’t write about the tropics.
My family struggled with fungi in our gardens in Congo. You’d t…
