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Why I Want to be a Bee Guardian Amy F. ~Boulder, CO Recently I was looking through a friend’s photo album from a road trip she had just taken. When I came upon a picture of a green meadow speckled with bee boxes, I said, “Bees! What a beautiful picture!” My friend blushed and said, “Well, to be honest, the story behind that picture is that we were driving along and I saw them and … I’ve never seen them before … and I got all excited and said, “STOP THE CAR!! LOOOK!!! A little fairy village!” She said that like a confession, all sheepish and blushy. But she was right. It was exactly what she though it was! Bees are little fairies, silently and diligently going about their work of creating beauty and sustenance out of fairy dust. And to think that so many humans who enjoy the fruits of their labor don’t even know who’s responsible for the flowers blooming and the cucumbers forming! And even worse, so many who do know this call themselves their “keepers,” and they haul them around from field to field making money off of them, feeding them junk food, and providing them substandard and even toxic lodging. That’s why I want to be a Bee Guardian like Corwin and Karen and Kelly. I want to provide the bees a safe space where they can do their fairy thing the way they’ve done it for thousands of years. I want to honor them by educating the folks who think bees just sting and make good honey. I want to spread the awe I feel in their presence. I want to help awaken a sense of responsibility among humans; our fear, our ignorance, our greed, our pesticides are killing a very vital and crucial part of our beautiful world. |
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