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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:48:31 -0800
From: antoinette Botsford
Subject: Telling the Bees


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My uncle was a beekeeper in Alberta. It was important to tell
the bees everything of significance that happened in the family.The
bees would always return to the hive (would not swarm), and provided
a spiritual presence, a link to heaven and the family. The bees never
stung him, although he did take appropriate precautions. It was the
best honey I ever tasted. I still get tears in my eyes when I think
of it. He died in 1977.

His children thought this "bee talking" business pure nonsense, and
after he died they no longer spoke to the bees. Ironically, when
they were in California on holiday, one of them died of a bee sting.
I was told it was a honey bee,but many people really don't know the
difference.
"May we find each other in the silence between the words."


Antoinette Botsford, Ph.D.
Storybird Productions
P.O. Box 1173
173 Prune Alley
Eastsound, WA 98245

360/376-4285

storybird@rockisland.com

http://www.rockisland.com/~storybird

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