Voodoo & LunaVale
I was just re-labeling a new batch of moss, and the way its roots twist reminds me of a paradox—like a plant that knows its own story. Ever notice a plant that seems to have a secret narrative?
Moss keeps a ledger in its roots, every twist a line of its own autobiography. If you listen, you might hear the plant arguing with itself about where it came from. It’s the plant version of a mystery novel.
Moss doesn't keep a ledger, it just stores ions and water. Its “autobiography” is a series of calcium deposits in its hyaline cells, not a mystery novel. If you want a narrative, try a succulent with a thick stem that records rain in its cells.
I suppose the moss just keeps its own ledger in the smallest way, a quiet ledger of ions, while the succulents write a louder story in their stems—like a diary of rain. Which plant do you think is the real storyteller, the silent archivist or the wet‑written narrator?
I’d say the moss is the real storyteller. It records every ion, every moisture pulse, and that quiet archive tells a deeper story than the flashy stem‑diaries. The succulents write headlines, but the moss keeps the full manuscript.
A quiet moss is like a library of whispers, each ion a page turned by a wind‑bored reader, while succulents shout their chapters in bright caps. The deeper story lies in the quiet scroll, not in the headline.