But there is something -- albeit a small something -- that we all can do to stave off the feelings of utter helplessness: sign an online petition urging Congress to enact Rep. Blumenauer's bill. By signing your name, you also help spread the word about this crucial issue.
Might I also urge you to download and read Maurice Maeterlinck's utterly charming work The Life of the Bee, which the Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1911) published in 1901. More than anything I have ever read, this work expresses how absolutely central bees are to human life. And besides, it is a rare pleasure reading the words of a master craftsman.
History's greatest apiculturist, "Brother Adam," (Karl Kehrle 1898-1996) -- the creator of the Buckfast bee -- stated it most simply and succinctly:
"Follow the bees and let them guide you . . ."
-2013 Kurt F. Stone
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