Open my planner on any given month, and you won’t just find due dates and supervisor meetings. You’ll find mushrooms drawn in the margins, washi tape marking a “rest day,” a little illustrated figure lying down after a long week, and stickers celebrating things as small as a haircut or as significant as a thesis draft being due. Chapter deadlines sit next to doodles. A “writer meetup” is marked in soft purple. Even my ink pads and stamps live on my desk like part of the toolk

A confession before we start: I am the person who stops mid-hike to photograph a bracket fungus. I own more mushroom-print tote bags than is strictly defensible. I have mushroom-themed coffee mugs, keep cups, water bottles, pens, and desk decorations, and the list could go on; my stationery drawer is honestly starting to constitute its own small ecosystem. So, when I first came across the idea of the “Wood Wide Web”, the theory that forests are laced together underground by s

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