daytime,” writes Boreham. “But what can you grow in the dark? That is the challenge of the mushrooms—what can you grow in the dark? The nights are the test! as Charlotte Brontë used to say. They are indeed. Tell me: Can you grow faith, and restfulness, and patience, and a quiet heart in the darkness? If so, you will never speak contemptuously of mushrooms again. I try to read an essay by Boreham every day to keep myself in tune with life’s simple beauties and to not get lost in the complexities of
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