The Magical Mint Family

Donald Armstrong
4 min readApr 2, 2022

Unless your name is Rip Van Winkle, you have no doubt heard of ‘magic mushrooms’ … the fungus that has a way of changing how we see the world. You may, however, be less familiar with what I will refer to as ‘magical mints.’ Lamiaceae, the botanical name for mints and related plants, is a large family with about 7,000 species, grouped into 236 genera — meaning that this family constitutes roughly one and a half percent of all living land plants…

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Donald Armstrong

Moved by a conviction that we humans--gifted with reason--can do so much better than we are; asks how both politics and faith can better serve humanity's needs.