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Mycelial Success: Retreat Recap, Happy Samhain/Día De Los Muertos, Diwali, Revolutions Are Made of Love and Memory Songs
Eiko Mizushima
October 31, 2025
Song of the Week
Listen to this song as you read to help open you up. My favorite rendition of La Llorona by Ángela Aguilar. I first heard this song at dusk on the Tamasopo River in Mexico, it was hauntingly beautiful.
El que no sabe de amores, Llorona
The one who does not know about love Llorona
No sabe lo que es martirio
Doesn't know about suffering
El que no sabe de amores, Llorona
The one who does not know about love Llorona
No sabe lo que es martirio
Doesn't know about suffering
A very spooky bonfire photo after eating delicious stew with this year’s Myqueerium crew.
Updates!
The photos below say it all.
Reflections from participants that I carry in my heart:
“This is going to be a core memory.”
“Let’s all be friends forever.”
“This is so nourishing.“
“This is a combination of my main passions.”
It was such an honor to lead Myqueerium with the incredibly talented and kind Nell Pierce last Sunday. We will do it again next year! I’m protecting and revisiting the warm and earthy energy in my heart from the gathering of so many brilliant and kind souls all together in one incredible place. Happy Samhain, Día De Los Muertos, Diwali, and Day Light Savings Time. "May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours, may the protection of the ancestors be yours". - Jonh O’Donohue
We found artist conks, oysters, resinous polypores, turkey tail, scarlet cups, robust brackets, lumpy bracket, lions mane, common stump bristlestem, violet toothed polypore, Phellenius Ignarius/hoof fungus, birch polypore, fomes fomentarus/tinder conk, crowded parchment, Schizophyllum commune/split gill, inky caps, and a bunch of LGBTQ folks wandering around the woods.
Nell Pierce held down the Q’llage, art, movement, journaling practices at Myqueerium AND looked like a really cute Amanita muscaria doing it.
Mushroom identification time post foray.
Trillium set up. I look forward to using this for more group meditations.
All the mushrooms we found! Photo by Eiko Mizushima.
Claudia and Laura in the hammocks! Photo by Eiko Mizushima.
Kaj, Rachel, and Sara in the Trillium. Photo by Eiko Mizushima.
Dried specimens. Photo by Eiko Mizushima.
Scarlet cup. These were everywhere underneath all the leaves! Photo by Eiko Mizushima.
Komorebi, with the last red oak leaves of the season. Photo by Eiko Mizushima.
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Samhain/Halloween Inspiration
Carving some mushrooms, kind of fun, a little freaky, perfect for keeping the malicious or unwise spirits at bay.
❤️ You are enough. Or close enough.❤️
Community Events
One of the best annual events in Minneapolis.
Check out my amazing office mate, Sun Yung Shin’s new book! Written with Mélina Mangal. Illustrated by Leslie Barlow, also a local baddie.
I am sure this will be wonderful.
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LGBT Chorus! Tickets starting at $9, highly recommend. Every performance has a different theme, this performance it’s protest songs!
My old co-worker Cat Justice is putting this one on, check it out!
