April 2012
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“Yet there’s so much more to them than what we see and sense. Bees do not...”
– E. Readicker-Henderson, A Short History of the Honey Bee
Apr 29th
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poetbabble: Say you promise to be at your desk in the evenings from seven to nine. It waits, It watches. If you are reliably there, it begins to show itself - soon it begins to arrive when you do. But if you are only there sometimes and are frequently late or inattentive, it will appear fleetingly or it will not appear at all. Why should it? It can wait. It can stay silent a lifetime. —Mary...
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 22nd
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“Nectar,at a fundamental level, the thing the bee desires, is a bribe, plain and...”
– E. Readicker-Henderson, A Short History of the Honey Bee
Apr 22nd
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Notes from Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic..."
“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can...
Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Excerpts from Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the...
“…I have to learn alone / to turn my body without force / in the deep element… I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail… the thing I came for: / the wreck and not the story of the wreck / the thing itself and not the myth… This is the place. / And I am...
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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“How would human beings ever have made love to each other, without honey and bees...”
– Bee Wilson, The Hive
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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“And tell with honeyed words the tale of love.”
– Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1791)
Apr 15th
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Notes #4 from Jeanette Winterson's Weight
“What can I tell you about the choices we make? I chose this story above all others because it’s a story I’m struggling to end.  Here we are, with all the pieces in place and the final moment waiting.  I reach this moment, not once, many times, have been reaching it all my life, it seems, and I find there is no resolution. I want to tell the story again… I don’t...
Apr 14th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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“Choosing the right dwelling place is a life-or-death matter for a honeybee...”
– Thomas D. Seeley, Honeybee Democracy
Apr 9th
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Apr 5th
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Notes #3 from Jeanette Winterson's Weight
“What can I tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate…  Why then, did the burden feel intolerable?  What was it that I carried? I realize now that the past does not dissolve like a mirage.  I realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future.  It...
Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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