Let It Bee—
...And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me...
I suspect someday an entry will be devoted entirely to how the Beatles work on my journey of seeking peace and joy... but right now that would be just another stop on a long and winding road toward. The things shared. Today... so for now I get this writing back to where it once belonged.
well I said let it Bee for a couple of reasons.
first, it’s hard to say how many different types of bees there are... There are Queen Bees now that’s not a type but it was the first thing I thought of. There are yellow jackets, bumble bees, honey bees sweat bees, —there might be “Sue” bees because there is Sue bee honey. There are those Killer African Bees and the ones from the Miami dolphins and from Saturday Night Live. Of course if you a Mississippi River Rat and follow Midwest League Baseball (if and when it existed and existed) you know there are/were Burlington bees such as Vida Blue and Paul Molitor just to name a few. anyway bees have been the topic of this rambling mass of entries before as I mentioned how many bees it took to make a spoonful of honey which is like 80,00 working for a year. As I recall the entry talked about the marvelous. Characteristic of honey being both. Antibiotic and anticeptic so it can heal cuts and not grow germs within it’s structure. It dsoesn’t spoil if it is sealed and I mean doesn’t spoil like after thousands of years—now if my rice crispies lwould stay fresh longer I would be set for life on breakfast. As it is the only thing that goes snap crackle. Pop in the morning is my joints... Anyway there are a lot of bees and their mains function is to work together to make honey and. To go around making plants grow better. Oh and they.dance to communicate which makes them semi-drunken college students and concert goers who can’t possible. Talk because the music is too loud. anyway bees do these very cool things, however, for reasons we haven’t figured out they are disappearing at a rapid rate. Why is a mystery... unlike why the Burlington Bees might disappear...(because major league team owners. Are profit mongers who are not generally tied to the communities that have supported their sport for. A century. ....
Okay back to peace and joy..
So in the spirit of seeking peace and joy there is a scientist (remember science?) who tried to compensate for the falling bee population by inventing a small drone that would fly around and do some pollination. Unfortunately. The drone, no matter how small, had to be built with significant mass and would tend to crush many young plants. I guess it was a killer bee too? So this scientist gets frustrated and decides to do something fun with his child to regain some joy. Now there’s not much more fun than blowing bubbles and watching kids laugh and run around popping them. Well. These bubbles would float through the air, land gently on. A plant and pop. so what if these bubbles could be modified to contain the pollen materials usually carried b y bees? Well it turns out they can and did work quite well. Imagine botanical gardens with bubble machines? How delightful would that be? So sometimes stopping to seek a little simple joy pays off—well I might argue. More than sometimes... but the next time you hear of an athlete being in a bubble think about how fragile. A bubble is and also think about the uses of bubbles we may only have scratched the surface of. I mean so far its doing dishes, taking baths, and now giving bees a rest...what’s next? Okay and providing a great prop for Lawrence. Well —if you don’t remember Lawrence he was Pre-Beatles mostly lol..
So one more thought about pollination and cross-pollenation. Part of seeking peace and joy. For me is opening up and listening and reading so that I can grow different ideas to share and then have others expand on them. Sometimes that means hearing something I might not understand or like and now here’s where the
“Let it Bee”. Comes in
Instead of doing my best to kill the idea I don’t like I try to let it. Pollinate a while.... I try to let it enhance my thinking or. Sometimes I try to add my pollen to it to see what grows. You see ideas are sort of like bees in that you can take a bunch of them and spread them out to see what. They produce within the minds of different folks. It is likely some. Pretty beautiful things might happen.
So next. Time you hear or read something that. Catches you sideways let it Bee for a sec...
So... before I sign off today I want to send out some thoughts of gratitude even though it’s not quite thank you Thursday...
Someone at the bank yesterday asked what I do with my time.... I said I write this blog and do this podcast. I then realized that this page. Has had over 16,000 views in the 1.75 years I’ve been piling it on and over 50 views per entry—wow thank you.... Also the podcast (link below) has had downloads in. Over 20 countries and the number of downloads this month reached an all time high thanks to listeners in places like Ireland , India, Bolivia, Great Britain (come on France ...surrender) and Germany... Oh yes. Canada —‘eh” and here in the U.S.
Some readers and listeners have sent ideas about what I should do with. My efforts and while a few are biologically impossible, many have been inspiring and I am so thankful that people share... you know you are like a wonderful swarm of folks making the world a better place.
Now... I often get comments that I share songs and then don’t sing the words loud enough or clearly and I pretty much should. Caption the songs because the words are.far more meaningful than the tunes... and this last offering is no different so I’’ wrap up today with the lyrics (as written —not necessarily performed )
Title —Junkyard Wings
By Jim Whalen—inspired by Don Whalen and so many others..
Galileo gazed through his telescope
Then he winked right at the pope —who asked
Are we at the center. Galileo said nope
Please don’t hang me from your rope—please don’t hang me from your rope
Then came our warrior. Susan B.
Said till all can vote none can be free
She found some men. Who would agree
And we took a step toward liberty—took a step towards liberty
Chorus
Why Can we embrace what change brings?
Act like Servants even when we’re kings
Listen. When the wise soul sings
Dawn our neon. Halos and junkyard wings
My friend Bobby says bre grateful yes for what you’ve got
If they ask you why? Ask them why not?
Try to add something to someone else’s pot
And know that. This really means a lot
Try to find the flower in the weeds
Help your sister (or neighbor) when she/he bleeds
share your fruit and plant some seeds
Show your. Love in words and deeds
Chorus repeat final verse with a little variation —Chorus..
Tomorrow? Who knows maybe. I’ll write about the Bee-Attitudes?
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