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Maria Finn
Jan 2, 20244 min read
Failing Up in 2024
The Romantic movement […] was a passionate protest against universality of any kind. The values to which they attached the highest...
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Maria Finn
Nov 7, 20233 min read
A Conversation with God
One evening I rolled up my sleeves, clicked on a podcast on Spotify, and took on the daunting task of cleaning out my cabinet where I...
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Maria Finn
Oct 6, 20234 min read
Hacking Desire and Pleasure with Wild Mushrooms
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. ― Friedrich Nietzsche I recently read the fascinating book The Biology of...
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Maria Finn
Jul 26, 20234 min read
Anchovies by Moonlight
Clusters of birds dive bombing the water and breaching humpbacks are a good sign that bait balls of small fish are on the move. These...
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Maria Finn
May 9, 20233 min read
Birds & Other States of Grace
“There arises first of all one question of the greatest importance and always attended with the same uncertainty, whether words, charms,...
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Maria Finn
Apr 10, 20235 min read
An Explosion of Flowers
“Ophelia: There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s...
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Maria Finn
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Transforming Strangers and Sojourners into a City - with Trees
I’m prepping to lead a walking/edibles tour of Golden Gate Park for Odd Salon members on April 1st. (Sold out but we may schedule more!),...
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Maria Finn
Feb 14, 20232 min read
Truffles & Desire
For Valentine's Day this year, my dog Flora Jayne, and I are out hunting for truffles. This time of year they are seducing all manner of...
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Maria Finn
Jan 30, 20232 min read
The Season of Awe
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ― W.B. Yeats Many of us in California are blinking...
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Maria Finn
Jan 3, 20234 min read
Chanterelles and the Exquisite Vein of Suffering
“An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.” Thich Nat...
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Maria Finn
Nov 22, 20223 min read
Bugs & Infinite Striving
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ― Lord Byron This past weekend at Camp Earnest, we were...
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Maria Finn
Nov 7, 20224 min read
Nut Ambitions & Mushroom Addiction
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m waiting for bay laurel nuts to get large and ripe enough to...
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Maria Finn
Oct 11, 20223 min read
Strange Beauty: Living in a Thin Place
“Beauty is the grandeur and elegance of experience that has come alive to its eternal depth and destiny. True beauty can emerge at the...
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Maria Finn
Sep 20, 20222 min read
Rain, Cultural Synesthesia & Other Upcoming Events
For some people, there are magenta Tuesdays, tastes that have shapes and wavy green symphonies. David Eagleman, “The Secret Lives of...
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Maria Finn
Aug 11, 20222 min read
About Bays
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...
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Maria Finn
Jul 5, 20223 min read
It's Raining Fish
An Athabascan woman who lived along the Yukon River in the interior of Alaska once told me that in her village, during summertime “Salmon...
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Maria Finn
Jun 1, 20223 min read
Rewilding Soil and Self
“It is estimated that skin has almost the same bacterial content as soil.” William Syrotuck from Scent and the Scenting Dog The impetus...
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Maria Finn
May 2, 20222 min read
Imaginal Cells and Edible Flowers
Nature has given us the ultimate example of change and transformation when the chubby, fuzzy caterpillars become the flutters of pure...
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Maria Finn
Apr 6, 20223 min read
Menus as Tales of Love and Adventure
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the...
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Maria Finn
Mar 30, 20226 min read
Permissible Pleasures: In the Wake of the Périgord Truffle
I just returned from the Périgord region of France where the famous truffle got its name. Though now the area is known as the Dordogne,...
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