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Contents
1. The Beauty Of Weak Cosmos Flower
2. The Strong Baobab Tree
3. Aggressive Yellowjacket
4. Unproductive Bumblebee
5. Be Stung By Bumblebee
6. Propolis
7. Tonsillitis
8. Chestnut Honey
9. The Beehive Of Yellowjacket
10. The Beauty Of Weakness
11. Cosmos Flowers and Honeybees
Introduction- NIMBY
🐞 Each person has their own intrinsic dispositionㅡpersonality, appearance, voice and intonation, talent, ability... and so on. In a similar fashion, diverse animals and plants have their own peculiarity.
What is more important is, we people might have to embrace the "diversity" in our lives whether it is good or bad... Such a diversity has two aspectsㅡone is a merit and the other is a disadvantage. Because, in some cases, people have a tendency to be "alone", though humans are a social animal. While, humans are also a self-centered animal...so, there is a famous saying ㅡ " In the whole universe, only I exist."
Oddly, people seem to like to be alone, though they always feel lonely deep in their heart that is why people are uncanny/weird... Because, being alone is freed from all the fetter of relationships that makes us be distressed than being alone. Thus, people might not get married, or might not even want to find romance... I often read a news article and its comments of how people think about that... They usually answer, " Whatever we do, we are alone in the end... when we die, we die alone...therefore, being alone is a natural reaction."
I don't want to conclude anything about that, for it always has two aspects... if not, and more... That being said, I agree with their thought, the fact, "Ultimately, we are all alone..." Plus, what if we people want to become intimate with others, then, we are supposed to get acquainted with a congenial person/kindred spirit. Who would like those who are not like-minded?...
If this is aggravated/worsened further, then it might become NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard)... Every person will have this mindset ㅡ"NIMBY".
1. The Beauty Of Weak Cosmos Flower
Anyway, every time it comes autumn, I would like to favorably see the colony of cosmos in the wild field... I like them as much as other flowers. Amazingly, they have the homonymㅡ "cosmos", which is connected with "the Universe!" unlike their own character, for they just look very "feeble" and "trifling"... Nobody will agree with the fact that such cosmos flowers are identical with the great and spacious universe in the same name...
A cosmos was originated from Mexico, I don't know regarding that cosmos very well like biologists or gardeners who know their nature and species...etc.
What I know is, only this; whenever a cool autumn wind blows, they just wobble from side to side and back and forth, here and there, without any resistance against the wind... How beautiful the flowery-wave in the wind is at the very moment! For their stems are not strong or thick, but are too thin and long...
But, they might mirror the sky and the universe wholeheartedly... Whenever I look at them in the wild field, I used to feel shame about myself... For their looks are so pure toward a cobalt-blue or cerulean-blue or Prussian-blue sky...
They look pretty vivid, bright, crystal clear, fine, effeminate, exquisite, and innocent along with the crystalline sky, thus they might have been named "cosmos" by which it cherishes the sky/universe in them.
In contrast, I don't have such a crystal clear mind and heart like them... Hence, I may feel ashamed in the presence of them... This is their purity along with the crystalline sky... Their purity might give people the catharsis that purifies our muddy and murky/darkish heart in this depraved world...
They look pretty vivid, bright, crystal clear, fine, effeminate, exquisite, and innocent along with the crystalline sky, thus they might have been named "cosmos" by which it cherishes the sky/universe in them.
In contrast, I don't have such a crystal clear mind and heart like them... Hence, I may feel ashamed in the presence of them... This is their purity along with the crystalline sky... Their purity might give people the catharsis that purifies our muddy and murky/darkish heart in this depraved world...
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| Cosmos Flowers |
Such a cosmos flower typically inhabits in the wild field. What if it is possible to cultivate for a flower gardening, then I don't know how to cultivate for, not as a gardener. But as I know, if they are implanted into an artificial flowerpot, then they will die... For they are not apt for growing in it...
Moreover, people cannot take them into a flower vase, for cosmos flowers are too thin to put in a vase, and even droop by hand's heat as soon as they are broken, so they have to inhabit in the wild field in the name of "wild flower" just as it is...
But still, such a cosmos looks strong, when a storm blows. They are not broken, even if they have the thin and long stems. I used to see their decumbency on the ground by the storm, but it was not the stem-broken. Because, they don't stand against the storm, which means, they go with the flowing of the wind...
2. The Strong Baobab Tree
Contrariwise, ironically, thick and strong trees are broken by the storm, for they are in inverse proportion against the storm, namely the power of resistance leads them to be broken.
For instance, a baobab tree, I read that it has a long life span, thousands of yearsㅡapproximately 1,840 years long.
For instance, a baobab tree, I read that it has a long life span, thousands of yearsㅡapproximately 1,840 years long.
In general, it inhabits in Africa, which has the reiterative seasonㅡrainy season and dry seasonㅡ, so that baobab trees must be very strong, enduring all the relentless climate in Africa.
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| A baobab tree |
Such a strong baobab tree also comes to African's mystical Idol, their solid religion, is called a totemism... But, its tree was broken by a thunderbolt, even so its news was not precisely described if it was accompanied by a storm or not, but usually when the thunderbolt strikes, thunderstorm will also hit. Probably, that day it might have happened...
Beyond that, I used to see other broken trees after striking a storm on the street, all of them were thick and strong than cosmos flowers at least...
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| Broken Baobab Tree |
Sometimes, miraculous happenings happen in our lives and in this world like this broken baobab tree... Who would have preconceived that that tree could be broken by?...
Cosmos flowers have a deep fragrance in it, so honeybees might be drawn to them... As I see it, strangely honeybees seem to prefer its unique pollen and fragrance so much rather than butterflies. Whenever I went near the colony of cosmos, there, there were always bumbling honeybees, they looked pretty busy to take their yellow pollen...
Perhaps, cosmos flowers might produce a special pollen to make honey through honeybees.
Such honeybees are also "the weak" like cosmoses and like this expressionㅡ" Like draws to like"...
Interestingly, both are made up of "group" like this; a colony of cosmoses, a swarm of honeybees...
Honeybees only eat a pollen, so to speak, they are a vegetable-eating insect unlike a yellow jacket/hornet.
3. Aggressive Yellowjackets
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| yellow jacket |
On the contrary, hornets are a meat-eating insect, but once in a while they shift a pollen from place to place like honeybees and attack a honeycomb to steal its honey, for hornets cannot produce honey itself and need to supplement protein from that honey, or to feed their larva/young.
Such a hornet does work the only thing that preys upon harmful insects, or cleans dead insects like a rotting mold that removes something dead bodies, in other words, they are like a funeral director who collects dead bodies to bury or burn.... In one sense, hornets might look like a professional assassin in the circle/world of insects...
They usually make their beehive into tunnels or dead trees.. but, recently they seem to build it around houses in which people live. What if people are strung by that hornet, I heard that it has a fatal poison in it, so that people can be dead... Their dangerous poison differs from honeybee's sting and its poison.
4. Unproductive Bumblebees
And there are bumblebeesㅡ a kind of honeybee, I read that they are not an original birth to producing honey than honeybees, because, their community is disorganized every year, as a result, only the queen of bumblebee survives after winning winter, and then their community begins again...
Meanwhile, honeybees communicate with their own signal, is this; is like the pattern of number 8 , which looks like a dance, but such a communication fosters their flourishing community among other bees.
Anyway, their communication is unique and remarkable than other bees.
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| Bumblebee |
As we see above, a bumblebees' look seems to be cute than a honeybee, for bumblebees have small wings compared with the fat size, so it might look more cute with the striped-pattern, and they might make a loud sound in order to fly through the small wings, so that they might be named, "bumblebee", bumble......ble....ble...ble...
By the way, such bumblebees have much poison as much as they have a large size, so that they can sting many times unlike honeybees, whereas honeybees only have one chance to sting against their natural enemies, after stinging they die soon... Beyond that, there are manifold beesㅡwe don't even know each of names and how it looks...
By the way, such bumblebees have much poison as much as they have a large size, so that they can sting many times unlike honeybees, whereas honeybees only have one chance to sting against their natural enemies, after stinging they die soon... Beyond that, there are manifold beesㅡwe don't even know each of names and how it looks...
5. Be Stung By Bumblebee
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| Heinrich Hirt (German 1841~1902) Young peasant Girl |
For, in those days, I was not able to cure its ache in a rural/remote village, a hospital was so apart from that village... I went to the wood along with my grandmother, dressing a red sweater. The bumblebee might have regarded me as a flower...
I wondered that how to be made honey, so I read about that ; pollen itself cannot make honey, though it has a sweet taste, but only honeybees must produce it. Because, a " sweet honey " is made by a special process of fermenting by honeybee's spittle and by the element of a pollen/honey, along the way its moisture is dried, and then the sticky honey is only left in the end. Having said that, as we know, a queen bee only produces a royal jelly unlike common honeybees.
6. Propolis
As I know, such a honeybee's spittle is also utilized in a medical field, such as: propolis (kind of natural antibiotic).
At any rate, this is a propolis; Usually, I see it is contained in very small bottle...
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| Propolis / Herb Pharm |
7. Tonsillitis
I had an experience to take such a propolis, when I caught a common cold. Whenever I was sick by, my tonsil used to swell very often, and even it was covered by a light-yellow pus all around on tonsil.
Then, I had to be suffered for 1~2 weeks with the ache all over my body, but I think that propolis was not a main treatment for an acute disease, instead of it, I had to meet ENT doctor to reduce the ache as soon as possible.
Then, I had to be suffered for 1~2 weeks with the ache all over my body, but I think that propolis was not a main treatment for an acute disease, instead of it, I had to meet ENT doctor to reduce the ache as soon as possible.
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| Tonsillitis |
Moreover, the propolis that I purchased might have not been an original product. I remember that it was not so expensive, was $20~30, so that it might not have been an original product... Plus, It will have a side-effect like every medicine has a side-effect in it...
I read that propolis is made by the honeybee's spittle like the process of making honey. For when honeybees have to build and protect their beehive from their natural enemies, they use their spittle around beehive. I equivocally thought that it might be made by their beehive itself , but it was not...
I read that propolis is made by the honeybee's spittle like the process of making honey. For when honeybees have to build and protect their beehive from their natural enemies, they use their spittle around beehive. I equivocally thought that it might be made by their beehive itself , but it was not...
8. Chestnut Honey
Most people might like an organic honey than an artificial-made sugar that causes aging of skin and many diseases including tooth decay, though that honey savors a peculiar fish-like smell " just a little bit". For instance, the honey that is produced from a chestnut blossom has the deepest taste, which smells the chestnut blossom itself and has a deep brown color.
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| Chestnut Blossom |
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| Chestnut Honey |
By the way, such honeybees are being dead because of the electromagnetic wave of mobile phone, so some day, we people might not get honey any longer...
I heard that people have tried to get honey from bumblebees on behalf of honeybees, but bumblebees will not reach the aim of producing honey like an original honeybees...
Some may think that we can eat a maple syrup that is produced by maple trees in place of honey, but that maple syrup is different from honey itself which has a special and an unique nutrition.
9. The Beehive Of Yellowjacket
Nowadays, only hornets might be increasing the population, so that they invade houses which people live in, a few years ago, some of firemen visited near my house to burn the honeycomb of hornet, its size was too large, which looked like a sunflower-size. Many people interestingly looked on the scene with children...
Similarly, ecosystem is being destroyed by human's selfishness and the pursuit of convenience only, and the revenge of nature will last against humans...
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| The beehive of hornet |
Everybody will honor and like "the strong" than "the weak"... For, the strong can do everything as they want, whereas " the weak" becomes their victims... Despite, the weak has their own merit and beauty in them like cosmos flowers and honeybees.
So, we people might have to embrace the diversity, but yet, who would like that hornets, or snakes, or hunting spiders, etc. that have their poison in it, or that have ugly and disgusting shapes..?
But, they are also the member of ecosystem... Therein lies a "diversity", which coexists the strong and the weak all together...
Like the ecosystem, we people might have to embrace both the strong and the weak, even though it lets us be suffered by the diversity...
Who would like the weak who cannot do anything ?...
Who would like the strong who oppresses the weak?...
Nonetheless, what if there is no the diversity, then it will not be harmonious...
10. The Beauty Of Weakness
" The Beauty of Weakness..."
Who would like to admire this worthless conceptㅡ"the beauty of weakness"ㅡ in the circle of "rat race" in our society? .... Everybody will want to be the best of the best and to be "the strong" than other people... Who would want to be the victim as the weak under the strong..?
Regardless, if one is the weak like cosmos flowers and honeybees, then he must be the weak/the victim just as it is... , though even dies, is the thing that the weak has to do... In one such case, firemen exist to be sacrificed/dead in a flaming fire pit, is their work...
Dying is their beautiful
and supreme work...
and supreme work...
Dying is.
Not to live, but to Die...
The more rats struggle to live, the more they are ensnared and trapped...more and more...that is the principle of trap, rat race.
11. Cosmos Flowers and Honeybees
Cosmos flowers and honeybees...
They will always be together as the weak...
When the wind blows, cosmos flowers will shake here and there... just as only the wind wishes..., which there is no their own volition of what they want to do against the wind, but it will be their beauty as the weak... and... as the dead...
There, the crystalline sky will be with them,
And there, honeybees will be with,
Waiting for coming autumn again...
Waiting for coming autumn again...
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| Cosmos flower and Honeybee |
