Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon<\/p>\n
The bee hive essentials are in the red car and they come out today.\u00a0 The bees themselves arrive next Saturday by semi.\u00a0 Mark Nordeen told me last year’s delivery came during an April blizzard, hit a patch of ice, rolled over and killed all the bees.<\/p>\n
This will be my first year with the bees and I’m looking forward to learning a lot about them.\u00a0 The notion a hive mind has, I know, fascinated my step-son Jon for a long time.\u00a0 It gets its intellectual legs from the performance of bees and ants and other social insects who as individuals can only accomplishments small increments of a larger task, the survival of the hive, but together they ensure the hive’s endurance through time.\u00a0 The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.\u00a0 Here’s a question:\u00a0 Is there is such a thing as an individual bee, or, rather do we have multiple flying macro-cellular organs of a single entity?<\/p>\n
It’s a chilly start for the Wishes for Sky day, but I got an e-mail that said dress warm and come.\u00a0 So Minnesotan.<\/p>\n
That reminds me.\u00a0 I read the inscription on an early Zhou dynasty kuei (a ritual food vessel) and one of the kids on the tour, a young Chinese girl said, “That’s so Chinese.”\u00a0\u00a0 This kuei was made in the 10th century B.C.<\/p>\n
Gotta get ready.\u00a0 Unload the hives and plant some peas before I take off for St. Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon The bee hive essentials are in the red car and they come out today.\u00a0 The bees themselves arrive next Saturday by semi.\u00a0 Mark Nordeen told me last year’s delivery came during an April blizzard, hit a patch of ice, rolled over and killed all the bees. This will be my first … Continue reading Is There Such A Thing As An Individual Bee?<\/span>