Shall I lichen thee to a winter's day?
Part 1 of what should be an infinite number of posts about lichen
It’s officially a new year—an entirely arbitrary, culturally-contingent marker of a nonetheless profound, universal truth: It takes 365 days (plus 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 1.1 seconds if you’re fussed about it) for our one, precious planet to orbit our one, precious sun. Not all cultures pin the new year to a complete solar revolution, but we are all mo…
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