And so is Wren. Our beekeeping proclivities were recently featured in the 9/11/08 issue of our hometown paper, The Park Slope Food Coop's Linewaiter's Gazette. Check it out.
Can I run for Vice President now? I think I'm qualified.
"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people—a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance."—Wm. Longgood, The Queen Must Die
4 comments:
It's a great piece.
Gerry, I think that's the best account of beekeeping and honeybee biology that I've ever read from a non-beek!
Congratulations.
Great article. I couldn't see the pictures, though. Boo-hoo.
Please run for VP! Maybe Tina Fey could be your president?
Of course, you're qualify... I mean let's say you started keeping Russian bees, rather than Italians...That would make you a foreign policy expert.
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