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| Sara Mapelli of Oregon meditating in her "bee blouse" |
I'm currently rereading Daymon Smith's Words of the Faithful. One of the main characters, Izilba, is introduced as someone who used to "drape herself naked in a cloak of honey bees." This rather extraordinary behavior of hers is mentioned just once in passing and never explained. Its strangeness, together with the fact that it is one of the first things we learn about Izilba, makes it very memorable, and even though the cloak of honeybees plays no role in the rest of the story, it's still the first image that comes to mind when I think of Izilba.
Today, one of my very young students somehow managed to misspell dress as bee.
2 comments:
When I saw the title, I guessed you would depict the unintentionally funny "Not the bees!" episode - which was an out-take from The Wicker Man remake starring Nicholas Cage (a movie that nobody ever watches):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk
William,
And speaking of Masons and bees,
maybe the dress was blue. Oh MY!
Copy and paste:
"Masonic Blue
Blue, then, is the Craft colour par excellence,
used in aprons, collars, and elsewhere.
Let us quote Bro. Chetwode Crawley.
"The ordinary prosaic enquirer will see in the
selection of blue as the distinctive colour
of Freemasonry only the natural sequence
of the legend of King Solomon's Temple.
For the Jews had been Divinely commanded
to wear...a 'riband of blue' (Numbers 15:38).'
A modern translation of that
verse in Numbers is: 'You are to take tassels
on the comers of your garments with a blue cord
on each tassel.'
~~~~~
Sync fairies never disappoint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmia_lignaria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_bee
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