Daily Archives: November 20, 2012

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Secrets and Mushrooms

I just had a visit from Fabienne, the angel of mercy and bastion of local knowledge who helped us take care of our elders at that time when such qualities were in short supply.   But this afternoon the first words out of her mouth were “Trumpets of Death.”   Then she couldn’t even finish her excited sentence because she gasped at the sight of my little basket.  I had to physically block her from dumping it into the rubbish – “we only collected them because they’re pretty!”   Even I am not stupid enough to eat found mushrooms without taking them […]