03/02/2022
Happy Wednesday y'all, time to learn a thing from Nature! This week we're chatting about LICHEN (lie-kin)! You know...that weird greenish flaky stuff you find on rocks or, for our friends in regions like the PNW, that swoopy, droopy, hair-like fuzz dangling from trees. Lichen looks a lot of ways outside of those two specific, but we'll keep it simple here.
Lichens are organisms that are also a partnership between fungi and alga. Yeah, like a partnership between mushrooms and that goop you find floatin around in the water. How that works is complex and like I said, we're keeping it simple here. Basically you need to know that lichens are not moss. We will talk about moss in a week or two -so stay tuned!
Lichens are extremely resilient. They color dry, harsh environments -like the alpine- with reds, yellows, and greens. With a little rain or moisture to restore their food supply, they can perform photosynthesis, producing more oxygen into our atmosphere. Lichen are also able to absorb pollution, including heavy metals, carbon, and sulfur, from the environment around them and live to see another day!
If you haven't picked up on it yet, lichens teach us about being resilient. Resilience is the ability to recover from adversity. You foster your own resilience by creating strong foundations in your life, both within yourself and in partnership, just like the lichen with fungi & alga. These foundations we can fall back or rest on to heal and recover. Having a strong foundation to foster resilience means being your most colorful & authentic self. You can produce better work and help make the world better than you found it.
Be like lichen and be resilient!
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