The Asakmuk Are Our Teachers

I long for a wise elder to guide us in our mythic origin story. What if we look at the mosses not only as healers of land, but as teachers of how we might live? Diminutive as they may be, often overlooked and mistaken for some one else, mosses as a group are extraordinarily successful. If success is measured by widespread distribution, they occupy every continent from the tropics to antarctica. They have diversified to fill every niche generating more than 11 thousand uniquely adapted species. These are measures of extraordinary success for such a humble being. But in a time when continuity of life as we know it is in question, the most poignant measure of success