Stone age art and Bees!

There was a cnn.com article today that was about how some anthropologists found some stone age statuettes at some site in Russia. Stone age carvings. One was of a woman. I guess I'm always impressed by things like these. We're very creative animals and have been creating things for a very long time - like it's part of being human - the creating part. It's neat.

I'm thinking my next tattoo might be of bees. Why bees? They can't swim in the ocean? True. Very very true. You have an ocean theme on your body - they wouldn't fit in. True also. But I did have a dream about one side of my body covered in ocean tattoos and the other in mountain tattoos (and I woke up completely freaked out.) My friend Sara Problem got huge bees on her very injured shoulder where she had surgery. They're great bees.

I love the thought of bees - just a few bumblers swarming around - maybe a few on my shoulder, one on my arm. Buzzing. Bees are great. I was allergic to them as a kid but grew out of the allergy. Bees are more than just little stingers - they're an amazing part of our lives and many of us don't even realize it. Without bees, we would only have potatoes and carrots to eat (which is NOT fine by me.) We would be without all of those wonderful flowering fruits (and some things people consider vegetables but are really fruits): tomatoes, melons (water, honey dew, cantaloupe), strawberries, blueberries, bananas, cucumbers, peas, beans, squashes, pears, apples, cranberries, everything beautiful and tasty. Bees make honey. They live in organized colonies. They have a queen. (I like to shop at Laura Bee.) I could go on and on. And we're at this terrifying spot in time - they're dying off in droves because of a terrible autoimmune disease - colony collapse disorder.

Bees bring beautiful things to our lives. We need bees. They're great. That's why I'm thinking of getting bees.

(I'm not thinking of these bees, but Natalie Dee has funny bees.)