Posts Tagged ‘bees’
Bees, sacred messengers
Guest Blogger, Selene Weir, has created an informative series about bees for OCLC. This is the first installment. “The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains…
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Read MoreBees and their honey
Honey is the epic of love The materialization of the infinite The soul and the blood of flowers Condensed through the spirit of others. GARCIA LORCA 1899-11936 Who hasn’t marveled over the sweetness of honey, the sweet golden nectar and food of the Gods? When I was a child, a trip to the grocery included…
Read MoreThe Brothers Grimm, The Queen Bee
In keeping with our Bee series, here is short tale sent to us by Selene for our reader’s pleasure. Let us know what you think of this tale by The Brothers Grimm! THE QUEEN BEE The Brothers Grimm Translated by Margaret Taylor (1884) Two kings’ sons once went out in search of adventures, and fell…
Read MoreThe Bee Family
Guest blogger, Selene Weir brings us her second installment on bees! “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems Before moving on to the luscious topic of honey, it would be…
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