once again, I'm a misfit :)))

From NWO's wonderfully refreshing post, a quote:

"There are a thousand reasons that people are out here [in the forest picking mushrooms]. But mushroom pickers are all misfits in one way or another. That's one of the wonderful things about this industry: It gives the misfits something to do."

I'm AN AVID MUSHROOM PICKER.

Why, its nation's favorite past time, second only to drinking and fishing and now I know why :))) I loved it since I was 5. Its a skill, like hunting, you really have to know what to look for, and why, and when. And its therapy. Its incredibly soothing to just be that close to earth, getting your hands dirty, just being out there in the forest, listening to it, touching it..its so simple- its beautiful. The poor hopelessly screwed up soul that wrote that passage has no idea what they've missed out on. Let'em go out there and buy their dream machines with sounds of bubbling brooks and crap, it leaves more forests and mushrooms for us misfits :) Too bad there aren't any real mushroom forests here..