Healers and Saints

My brain is a weird place. Maybe everybody's brain is a weird place? All of our thoughts are a collection of our lived experiences, so it's entirely possible that I am not alone in my wonderings. I was raised Catholic, and if you know anything at all about Catholicism you know about the Saints. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Saints and they are everywhere. And Saints have an incredibly important role to fill in the lives of many people worldwide. 
While I am no longer a practicing Catholic, the lives and deaths of Saints are still buried deep in my brain. 
One of the requirements for becoming a Saint is performing or witnessing a miracle (this is important!), and lately I have been reading about forest ecosystems. I'm currently in the middle of Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard (Knopf, 2021). Did you know about the role of fungi in the health of forests? Did you know that if you remove the fungi from the soil, the forest will die? Talk about mind-blowing. 
I started to think about the inter-connectedness of the world, and the amazing role that fungi play. That got all swirled around with the idea of miracles and life and death after life. And the artwork that arose from that was a series of Sainted Mushrooms.

And while I know that the Church would never, I am not the Church--so I am free to see the miracle of cooperation in creation. 
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​That's all for today, friends.