On Bees and Beeing

First Published by Lavender Grace in the Real Estate Magazine Issue 736 - August , 2020

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
— Nikola Tesla

How Will Our Future Unfold?

Generations from now, will our children's children look back at the actions of our

generation and say, "We had amazing ancestors! Faced with monumental changes in

climate, the sixth big extinction*, and the disappearance of their natural resources, they

woke up! They remembered the stories of their ancestors about how to live in abundance,

and re-learned how to be in good relationship with our planet and all life. They learned how

to change the way they lived—and did change—for us. Look at all we have because of their

foresight; we are so thankful!"

*The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene

extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the

more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity. —Wikipedia

LET ME SHARE THIS TALE WITH YOU

This is an optimist story, a fable of how the earth was brought back to health, one home,

one business, one community at a time. It is a story whose promise inspired visionaries in a

small coastal region of Northern California to dream into being an extraordinary plan, a plan that

literally has the potential to save the world...

It all began when the bees said, "We have had enough!” For years, bees had been treated like

a disposable commodity, compelled to live in overcrowded conditions, constantly moved from

place to place to pollinate fields of trees and crops that were full of poisons, then prevented from

reaping the benefits of their own labor. They were force-fed food with no nutritional value, and

eventually their immune systems just could not take it anymore.

So they disappeared.

Soon the people began to notice their gardens empty of flowers. The trees no longer bore fruit,

and the farmers’ fields and prairie lands dried up. Before long, the land became a barren waste.

People tried laboriously pollinating crops by hand, but pollination is not naturally the work of

human beings. At last, the cost was too much—people were no longer able to feed themselves.

In this desolate landscape, the people grew hungry, not only in their bellies but in their spirits,

for all the beauty they had once known had disappeared along with the bees. They knew they

could not continue to exist unless they did something to heal the devastation.

Thankfully, some of the elders still remembered stories that were told to them by their elders’

elders, who remembered how to call back the spirit of the bees. They remembered how essential

bees are to the abundance and diversity of all life and understood the divine role bees hold in

the circle of life.

The elders said, "Remember the songs of gratitude," and told of long-forgotten songs that

were sung when the earth was bountiful and abundant.

The elders said, "Begin with the earth, where all life comes from and all life returns." So the

desperate people began again to honor the earth.

Every morning, they expressed gratitude for all that was given and all they hoped to repair, singing the

ancient, supplicating songs as they amended the soil and planted seeds in every field and backyard.

As the people did this, slowly, surely, the earth began to heal from the poisonous thoughts and

deeds that had afflicted her for so long.

The elders said, "Remember that water is life!," so the people again began to respect the water.

Every morning and every night the people gave thanks for precious water that quenched their

thirst and the thirst of all plants. They gave thanks for the salt waters of the oceans, and birth waters

that nourish and grow new life.

As the people began to honor the earth and respect the water, the bees that were left took

notice. They heard the people's songs of gratitude and more and more bees began to find the

flowers and crops that had been planted for them. The flowers returned to bloom, along with

the abundance of food; the green of the fields came back, and the trees shot up with perfumed

resins full of diverse and bountiful pollen.

As the people's honor and respect for the earth returned, so did the bees. With the bees

came the return of the sweet beauty of life. Barely averting certain disaster and amazed at

the regeneration of their world, the people were careful to teach their children the importance

of these practices so that future generations would not again forget and fall into the same

troublesome patterns that sent the bees away. All the children were taught that living in gratitude

is essential for the survival of the planet.

And this is how the earth was brought back to health, within the songs and prayers of

thanksgiving, within each heart, one home, one community at a time.

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Lavender Grace