Month: March 2013

“There are bees in every hive with inherent imperfections: they cannot navigate from the directions given by others. They fly off everywhere. They are always getting lost. They never gather much pollen. Yet, by an incongruous twist of fate, these bees can still dance directions to others. And so they occasionally return from their misguided wanderings with delirious gospel of what they have found. Good god, what they have found! It is the lost bee who finds new flowers.” –Jack Haas

What have you found by getting lost?

Happy spring! For a moment the earth hangs in perfect balance between the light and the dark, and then, ever so subtly, tips toward the light and the growing day.

How is your life tipping toward the light?

 “The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free….”
―Utah Phillips

How have you resisted attempts to limit your freedom to be who you truly are?

Sometimes it looks as if there are secret codes written in nature: in the pattern left in the bark of a tree by a boring beetle, in the curls of frost on a window pane, in the pattern of the clouds. There is no Rosetta stone to translate these messages, but perhaps it is worth reading them anyway.

What messages have you received from sources you couldn’t understand in any literal way?

St. Patrick is fabled to have driven the snakes out of Ireland. Which is more heroic if you don’t like snakes than if you are a snake.

What have you driven from your life? Has it helped or hindered you?