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Today.




Interesting fact about bees -

The queen stocks her nest with pollen and nectar, and lays her first batch of eggs. She incubates them much as a bird would, sitting on the eggs while shivering her flight muscles to produce warmth.

I love that. I remember reading something by some early naturalists, who were classifying bees as very small birds! I don't know why these kinds of things please me so, easily happy! I love bees, I planted some flowers in the garden that they like. I liked this text that on display in the zoological museum in Amsterdam. Does anyone know anything about the writer E Heimans? There were lots of interesting things by him in that museum but I don't know much about him.



I read this beautiful poem on someone elses journal a while ago and I wanted to share it -

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-Mary Oliver

I especially loved this part - Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination. I think if people could really realise this then they could be so much happier. How can you make someone see that? See that the world is a beautiful place and that life is worth living? I want to tell someone this but I never know how. Maybe it's something you can only find yourself when the time is right though. I remember a time in my life when I didn't know that but now it's what makes me so happy to be alive.

I have to say thank you all for getting my set to go live and for all the lovely comments on it! Did you spot the mosquito bites?! It was shot in Italy and it was so hot, I got bitten by lots of insects and after that shoot I got really sunburned but it was fun to do anyway! I have so many messages to reply to and I will do my best but it's going to take me a while! I really appreciate all your nice comments. If you haven't see it yet, take a look here - Shimmer




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