It seems appropriate to start off this year's postings with a salute to Lit Woon Long (author) and Barbara J. Haveland (translator) for my New Year's gift of the lovely The Way through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning. What a way to start off 2022!
In this little gem of a book the author embraces the loss of her husband, Eiolf Olson, with the help of the mushroom trail.
All I had to do was follow the mushroom trail, even though I still didn't know where it would lead...Mushrooms provided me with a new perspective on things, not least when it came to making fresh sense of life.
But the book is more than an anthropologist's account of her journey of healing in the Norwegian forests. It is also recipes and tips, thoughts, mushroom identification, mushroom history, trivia, fun facts, and quirky antidotes. It is uplifting and inspirational!