How to Keep Bees
How to keep bees:⠀
* Flirt with the sea⠀
How to keep bees:⠀
* Flirt with the sea⠀
* Look through old volumes of botanical illustrations⠀
* Read books by Sharon Blackie⠀
* Skinny dip at least once in a slightly risky location ⠀
* Question why it’s called the European or western honey bee when it originated in Africa.⠀
* Go to France. Or Nepal. Or whatever place is calling the soul of your imagination.⠀
* Giggle all by yourself.⠀
* Take a course in eco-psychology⠀
* Tell her how you feel.⠀
* Leave offerings for the trees.⠀
* Get stung.⠀
* Spend time playing make believe with a child⠀
* Teach yourself about what’s growing and blooming in your area. Eat from the lands closest to you.⠀
* Be seduced by flowers.⠀
* Watch Martin Shaw tell a story.⠀
* Ask the wild bee what the druid knows.⠀
* Drink sunlight, tickle starlight.⠀
* Get your hands dirty.⠀
* Talk to your ancestors.⠀
* Bathe your mind in propolis.⠀
* Be curious about the family of ducks at the park.
* Question definitions of gender.⠀
* Dress in your finest just to have a chat with the moon.⠀
* Light beeswax candles and read delicious fictions late into the night.⠀
* Tell him how you feel.⠀
* Protest with Greta.⠀
* Backpack at least once in the wilderness.⠀
* Let spirit take you.⠀
* Stay up all night dancing.⠀
* Let bees lick honey off your fingers.⠀
* Lick honey off your fingers.⠀
* Dive into the reverie. ⠀