Ever notice that communication around the holidays can make or break the day? Here's what nature teaches us.  

Plants use the mycelial network, a fungus, to communicate to each other. This makes up 20-30% of our soil. In the same way our human communication tends to only be 20% verbal and 80% non-verbal.

Thanksgiving is like the forest floor after a long season—

where the mycelial network quietly gathers what each tree, root, and fallen leaf has offered.

Nothing is wasted. Nothing is taken for granted.

The forest doesn’t celebrate abundance with noise.

It celebrates by sharing resources underground,

passing sugars and minerals from the strong to the weak,

from the old to the young,

from the shaded to the sunlit.

Thanksgiving, in nature’s language,

is the moment when the unseen network is felt—

a reminder that we live because we are connected.

We thrive because we contribute, and we are

supported by exchanges we rarely see.

It’s gratitude as ecology:

each part giving what it can,

each part receiving what it needs,

and the whole forest becomes more alive because of it.

This week, notice what role you play in all the above. Thank you for being on my journey of depicting nature as our greatest teacher.  

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