The Sex the Flower Listens For - These Things
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
- Albert Einstein (attributed to, but…)
“Did you know,” she asked when he came and sat next to her under the apple tree, “the sound of bees’ wings stimulates the production of sugar in flowers.” “Flowers can hear?” He asked out loud unsure about listening that he can not hear. “Yes,” she wonder-whispered, blushing, knowing all along, “the sex organs of plants are listening now, waiting, wanting…”
These things too inspired me recently
The best song about the pandemic - the one by the elementary music teacher, the one I promised would make you laugh a couple of weeks ago, that I provided a dead link to, here it is.
Buchla Concerts 1975 (album) - we know the sounds of Suzanne Ciani from Coca-Cola and Energizer commercials and the sound effects she created for the movie “Star Wars.” But many do not know she has won Grammy’s for her New Age music and pioneered the Buchla 200 modular synthesizer.
If you’re trying to decide what food to grow yourself, here are 8 places to start - Experts can grow anything and write about. Here are some fruits and veggies anyone can grow.
People Recreate Works of Art With Objects Found at Home During Self-Quarantine - And yes, TP was used in the re-making of many of these artworks.
“My heart’s in the highlands, my heart is not here…” (listen to this song!) - Arvo Pärt’s setting of this poem by Robert Burns, performed here by Else Thorpe and Christopher Bowers, captures a longing within me to be elsewhere now, these days, from this, to be present too but still “my heart is not here.” This song is featured in the highly recommended film by Paolo Sorrentino, “The Great Beauty.”
This Too
Did you know there are coffee growers that intentionally avoid bird habitats when planting coffee plantations? Visit DrinkBirdFriendly.com to have bird friendly coffee shipped to your door.
Join the “flash flock” hosted by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center on Saturday, May 9, 2020, to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day and learn simple actions you can do from home to help save migratory birds. An easy thing to do is download these images and videos to post to your social channels to help spread awareness.
What is that buzzing?
Jeff O.
P.S. - Several folks asked where to find the poems I recorded for National Poetry Month, they’re all here. It seems that “Remember,” by Joy Harjo, our current National Poet Laureate, is a favorite.