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A Blue Poppy blog post by Bob Quinn

In the winter of 1997 I drove home from night class at OCOM where I was working on my master’s degree. That evening we had studied the yang tonics. The last one we had talked about was cordyceps. It was a substance I was familiar with already since I was working in a Chinese herb company that imported a few tons of the stuff every year and sold it to manufacturers. But here I was studying it in a more focused way, reading Bensky and listening to the teacher. When I drove home I flipped on the TV; it was set to the public television channel. The very first image that popped up on the screen was of a Tibetan woman carefully digging up cordyceps. Fascinating timing. I take note of synchronicities of this sort and took it here to mean that cordyceps would play a key role in my professional life, and that has been the case.