Lichen is born from the encounter between two very different beings, fungus and algae, which alone could not create the same wonder. It is a silent pact, an embrace that asks not to be equal, but to be together.
You, mushroom, are shelter, structure, home. I, algae, am light, breath, nourishment.
Together we become something wonderful : a new skin that inhabits the rock, the tree, the wind.
This is how differences turn into strength, and loneliness becomes connection.
Love that defies the impossible
Lichen grows where there seems to be no space: between cracks, on the hardest surfaces, in the harshest climates.
It is the symbol of a love capable of finding support even when everything seems hostile, of blossoming slowly without making any noise, of enduring over time with a sweet tenacity.
In their intertwining, the algae and the fungus do not cancel each other out, they recognize each other.
Distance dissolves into a shared rhythm , a shared heartbeat that creates a "we" greater than each other. It is there that love becomes home. Not possession, but alliance. Not blind fusion, but mutual presence.
A symbol to wear
A lichen jewel is a whispered promise: to remain true to yourself, yet choose every day to meet and create something unique together.
It is the emblem of a love that does not fear time , that knows how to grow slowly, that transforms what it touches, like a caress that makes the world habitable.
Explore YAWNE , Deb's botanical jewelry collection dedicated to lichen.