The Cottascarth Sycamore…… From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:12 on 08 April 2025
The Cottascarth Sycamore….
You might remember my tale of the Cottascarth Sycamore….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/06/23/the-sycamore-at-cottascarth/
On Saturday, we planted out the little tree which we’ve nurtured from a Key….
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
“Telling the Bees
by Emily Polk
“Maybe the lesson then was the same as it is now: We are all just trying to survive. We are not done yet.”
Referred to as sacred tears of God, emissaries for the ancestors, and message-carriers to the afterlife, bees have long resided at the heart of cultural practices straddling life and death. In the tradition of telling the bees, beekeepers whispered into the hives important news, like a death in the family, often draping them in black mourning cloth. It’s believed if the bees are not told, they may stop producing honey, abandon the hive, or even dieLast year over a million honeybee colonies perished in what is estimated to be the largest die-off in US recorded history, likely due to pesticides, disease, and poor nutrition, putting our food security at risk. If the bees had been told of such loss, what might they have felt at the devastation of their kin? In this essay, Emily Polk meets with a Yemeni beekeeper in downtown Oakland, California, and scientists studying bee behavior and cognition to understand whether these tiny creatures can share in our grief, rather than simply witnessing it. Glimpsing the greater circles of loss that connect us with the more-than-human world, Emily opens to the enduring spirit of survival we all share.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/telling-the-bees/
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