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A BLUE GARDEN LETTER #6
Finally summer has arrived in The Blue Garden. A butterfly is visiting the greenhouse and the squirrels are busy on the bird feeder. I have been planting and weeding for hours, now it feels great to sit down with a glass of cold water, listening to the sounds in the garden, smelling the fragrances, enjoying the warm afternoon sun caressing my neck and my shoulders.
A bumblebee is sucking nectar from some purple flowers. I am reading an article about bees and the colony collapse disorder. This frightens me. Nature is so vulnerable, and often it seems like we are all doing our best to destroy it. The Blue Garden is like a tiny little pinhed in the world, but this pinhead is mine and I want it to be a place where life can flourish. I feed the birds all year round. I don´t kind a few weeds, I let the wildflowers grow and I love the spiders and their webs. I am dreaming of bee hives, hens and chickens, but for the moment I can´t see how it can be done.
And now you ask in your heart,
"How shall we distinguish that which is good
in pleasure from that which is not good?"
Go to your fields and your gardens,
and you shall learn that it is the
pleasure of the bee to gather honey
of the flower,
but is is also the pleasure of the flower
to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
and to the flower a bee is a messenger of love.
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the
receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstacy.
People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures
like the flowers and the bees.
Kahlil Gibran
With greetings from The Blue Garden
BrittArnhild
ps: the winner of the handwritten letter is yael from Israel.
Yael, will you please send me your address.
