I once titled an essay "The Slow Road to Sudden Change," because even what is imagined as overnight change or revolution usually had a long build-up. Mushrooms give us a great metaphor for this.
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Mushroomed:
1. After a rain mushrooms appear on the surface of the earth
[Picture of a single mushroom from below so the gills underneath are visible]
as if from nowhere
2. Many do so from a vast underground fungus that remains invisible and unknown
[Picture of a clump of mushrooms together]
3. What we call mushrooms, mycologists call
[Cross section showing a network of fungus below the ground and mushrooms on the surface]
the fruiting body of the larger, less visible fungus
4.(Uprisings and revolutions are often considered to be spontaneous)
[Picture of mushrooms sprouting in the woods with some trees also visible]
CEL
from Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit