Happy Little Bees

The Perils and Secret Language of Bees

2009-10-20T19:15:00.000-07:00

Bees are crucial pollinators in natural and agricultural ecosystems. However, underlying the idyllic image of these nectar gatherers among scented blossoms is a sometimes fiercely competitive world of sudden death and gang violence.

James Nieh explores this side of bee life and the ingenious adaptations, including language, that bees have evolved in response to the perils of pollination.

Wynton Marsalis * Flight of the Bumble Bee

2009-09-20T23:14:00.000-07:00

Wynton Learson Marsalis is one of the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. Currently the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton has received many awards for his musical proficiency. These awards run the gambit of Grammys to the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his three and half hour jazz oratorio CD box set Blood on the Fields, the first jazz album to win this award.

Born into a musically oriented family in New Orleans, Wynton was exposed to many legendary jazz musicians. Al Hirt, who gave Wynton his first trumpet when he was 6 years of age and Danny Barker, a legendary jazz banjoist who led the Fairview Baptist Church band which Wynton was playing in when he was eight.

Wynton was very active musically during high school and then in 1978 he had a two-year stay at the Juilliard School of Music before joining the Jazz Messengers to study under master drummer and bandleader, Art Blakey. Not long after that he toured with the Herbie Hancock quartet before forming his own band.

After many concerts and workshops Wynton rekindled widespread interest in an art form that had been largely abandoned and his viewpoint was promoted strongly in Ken Burns' documentary Jazz, that Wynton co-produced.

Ally * Alison Lee Cousland
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Orgonite and ChemTrail Elimination

2009-09-20T21:20:00.000-07:00

Time Lapse Photography * The effects of Orgonite Technology

We understand that someone has been documenting ChemTrails over Sydney for the past 7 years now and observing them to be on the increase. We started really noticing them over Sydney last Easter, when they started on the Eve of Easter and continued through until the Sunday.

On a car trip between Melbourne and Sydney recently we noticed ChemTrails being formed all day on either side of the highway. So their appearance isn't restricted to the major cities of Australia. (The sunset over the Blue Mountains that evening was quite spectacular, as one huge horizontal ChemTrail lingered low on the horizon.)

In our backyard veggie garden we’ve allowed our green veggies, like lettuce & rocket to flower in order to harvest the seeds. And a few weeks ago it was such a joy to see that so many bees had been attracted to all these flowers.

But over the last few weeks, it’s been hard to distinguish between cloud and ChemTrail over Sydney and the sky has just become a haze. And even though there are still lots of flowers blooming in our garden * Not a single bee has been sighted for many days now.

I remember as a kid growing up in Melbourne that we would ALWAYS walk over lawns covered in clover with GREAT awareness in order not to step on any bees * And now in Sydney we also have a front lawn full of clover, but there’s absolutely NO danger of stepping on a bee here right now.

But a small seed of hope: This morning as we were looking out the window and commenting that normally the wisteria would be surrounded by bees * We saw ONE solitary bee. It rained last night and so perhaps the sky may have cleared just enough to give this ONE solitary bee some respite?

But another perhaps even bigger seed of hope: For all the havoc that pesticides or ChemTrails may be causing amongst the bee populace of the world * There IS a solution * ORGONITE

And so we're looking at building an ‘Orgonite Sculpture’ in our backyard as soon as possible * Instructions at http://budurl.com/ChemBuster * With more to come.

Yours in personal & environmental F * R * E * E * D * O * M

Ally * Alison Lee Cousland
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