Cow shit & Mushrooms (intro)

Lots of ideas are like good tasty mushrooms. They are definitely worth your interests. But their actual origin is in feelings and experiences that are very boring. Even disgusting. Sometimes even disgustingly boring. I call these uninteresting origins cow shit.
This is why context will sometimes be missing on some of the articles I publish here. Also, there will not be a direct link between this account and my real-life persona (but I will no go to great length to hide such a link, I’m just being discreet, not actually trying to keep something secret).
Now, what is cow shit actually? It’s
- happenings so boring and mundane that they’ve have happened to almost anyone
- feelings that anyone else has had too
- day to day life, with all its complications, that has meaning to you, but it boring to almost anyone else who doesn’t understand you completely (and who does?)
- “digested life” — experiences that might have been slightly interesting when they happened, but their final for which fueled the actual idea is actually a non-distinct mess of decaying bits
It’s also things whose causal link is purely random to the idea they generated — think the cow dunk that lands near a particular tree, and together with some particular weather conditions triggers the springing of a “Fairy Ring” set of mushrooms like this:

Boring mentions of cow shit or the weather will not bring you any closer to understanding the beauty of such a formation. They can, of course, help you understand how it works, but only by means of “its helped by cow shit or other decaying organic matter” and “it requires warm-ish and humid weather”. You don’t need to know what particular cow ate what in order to make the cow shit. Just as you don’t need to know about the exact types of clouds and weather patterns above it.
So, now that we got the cow shit out of the way, let’s go brew some mushroom stew…
