Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.