Bee

Bee on Salvia

I used to be afraid of bees…you know the fear, stories of swarming bees attacking you, stinging you until you died from their venom or from having your lungs close up with an allergic reaction. My fear wasn’t helped when the mysterious “Killer Bees” escaped from some South American laboratory and began migrating north…to the U.S. of all places. Oh, the irony.

The world seemed to slowly change and bees began quietly disappearing. I’m sure a conspiracy theorist out there on the internet would like to write (anonymously, of course) about how bees are not a required part of life’s cycles and any thought otherwise is a liberal conspiracy. Sigh, that’s life today. Misinformation. Targeted disinformation. Money buys airtime, Twitter space, news channels. The ever present anonymous hate mail. Faceless racism and rising extremism. But, the bees are coming back. I hope.