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bees, and the persistence of hope
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Britton Gildersleeve
The bee house is up! As a beekeep wannabe from waaaay back (decades — really), I can’t begin to say how happy I am. My beloved bought me a native bee house (not honey bees, more on this later) for the holidays. Health woes kept us from finishing it the way I wanted (he did,…
keeping bees…
By
Britton Gildersleeve
One of my grandson’s earlier words was Bee! My phone wallpaper is a bee, and there are bees on my jewellery, on cups, on various elements of my life. I love bees. This will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me, or reads this blog. Bees are a kind of totem for me, I…
rescuing bees, even one by one
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Yesterday I did my part for Save the Bees: I rescued one bee. Just one, at no risk to anything other than my sense of propriety (whatever that is!). Sitting at a two-top by a window, waiting for my sister to join me for lunch, I noticed a solitary honeybee caught against the window, gently…
more bees ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
So it’s bees again. AND poetry. Because really ~ why not?? What’s more like June than the hum of bees, their own gently busy music? The poetry is what comes of watching, good Buddhist contemplation ~ Here’s John Ciardi’s poem, “Bees & Morning Glories”: Morning glories, pale as a mist drying, fade from the…
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