Gay Like Me

Those mosses that grow along the edges of dirt roads and trails are not as common as they appear, but they are also not nearly as invisible as we might think. In fact, if one considers the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, mosses might be regarded as a kind of green fringe that follows the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada. In her book "Gathering Moss," Robin Wall Kimmerer invites us to step into this world beyond our ordinary powers of perception and experience what it feels like to live at the limits of ordinary perception. With equal parts passion and poetry, Kimmerer shares her personal reflections on mosses and how these remarkably simple organisms have shaped her life and her thoughts about place, sense of place, gravity and place-based thinking in general.