I have been getting sidelined a bit lately. Spending time in Portland as one of my brothers had a quad-bypass done a week ago after a heart attack early March. I thought I would be bringing him home yesterday for his recovery
but “floppy foot syndrome” on Sunday had me settling him into a rehab facility last night instead. Leaving me a few days left to prepare. It has left me too overwhelmed
sometimes to then go on the internet.
I have been writing a bit about bees this week; apt metaphors especially in respect to empathy and SLIDing, for being “too receptive” to the environment around me. So it was interesting when an article about bees sensing bio-electricity fields from plants around them showed up in one of my Facebook feeds this morning. Again, it shows the power of the deductive wisdom of the unconscious mind.
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draft: once i was a beehive
once i was a bee hive
and there was buzzing and flitting about inside me
and so i buzzed and flitted outside of me with my hair on end
and then i started singing all the same bee song and dancing the same bee dance;
perhaps i was the queen bee in my mind, but there was harmony,
it was a happy productive little hive
and then I was the collapsed hive syndrome, nothing apparently wrong
inside the hive, just an increase in overall accidents, fatalities;
just a perception that my hive is wrong, no longer wanted, to be replaced
now i am a collapsed colony, tripping over tiny lifeless bees in hive corridors
workers fallen where they flew; unused pollen scattered in the dust,
undiscovered honey hidden behind obscured wax
June 1, 2016 at 8:59 pm
Ironic that you are writing about beehives…I am searching for products related to chicken keeping, sustainability, gardening, etc. for a freelance client–Backyard Chicken Coops, based in Australia. I’ve been writing for them for almost 3 years now and was recently asked to seek and present some new products that I think they should sell…and he’s paying me to shop!!! Beekeeping supplies is one of his suggestions. Ha Ha ! How about that? As I write this, I have the Brushy Mountain Bee Farm site minimized. Anyway, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this draft so far. Will you be adding to it or just editing or pondering it as it is? Don’t worry, BEE Happy 🙂 !!!
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June 1, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Sweet job, Karen! Im jeally!
Bee’s have been kind of a theme this week- starting with a random comment I overheard. My eDevices keep popping up bee-related topics. I even just had a bee touring the inside of my house before finally popping out a door. Someones trying to tell me something …
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June 2, 2016 at 8:49 am
Oh this is so powerful!
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