Today was more fulfilling on both the bee front and the book-binding front! We moved the top-bar hive this morning without incident, and the bees are already flying around their new environs. And I figured out how to make a straightforward adaptation (using all easily available materials--no papyrus nor leather!) of a Nag Hammadi codex for the book-binding workshop. Hurray!
Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
3/18: bees & book-binding
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of bee-keeping and book-binding, but it didn't quite work out. We were going to get up early and move the top-bar hive from its present location (on a friend's property) to our house; when the alarm rang, we were both feeling a little under the weather so we decided to go back to sleep. And later yesterday morning, since we weren't bee-keeping, I tinkered with some new-to-me book-binding techniques in an attempt to find something that I would want to teach in an ancient book-binding workshop at school at the end of the month. My tinkering ended with frustration, which was a first for me and book-binding.
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