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Beekeeping
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My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don鈥檛 bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It鈥檚 a feudal relationship: protection in return for a percentage of the fruits of their labors.
He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.
He taught me that sudden movements get you stung.
I took these lessons a bit too much to heart.
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― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey

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...when I offered to either stay and help or go bake a pie, it was the pie that was most needed. It took six pies to finish the roof. I had not known that pies were such an important part of construction.
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― A Country Year: Living the Questions
― A Country Year: Living the Questions

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