Caring for Our Communities and Our Co-Creation during the Coronavirus Crisis
Bees for Peace was originally envisioned as a peace network of feeding sites for bees. As bees visit each of the feeding sites, they connect the sites with their pollinating activity. Should the sites be at different religious communities, the bees act as messengers of peace, as they quite literally connect us all.
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Normally, we would encourage you to create something like a “BEE Cause We Care” day at your faith community. Bee protection offers so many great opportunities for families and communities to work and celebrate together. However, since by far the best way to fight the corona virus pandemic is by practicing social distancing, these kinds of activities will have to wait until the current crisis is over. In the meantime, the bees cannot wait. In this time when human contact must be greatly reduced to keep us physically healthy, we need to think more imaginatively about creating and maintaining the contact that we all need for our mental and ecological health. Here are some suggestions:
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- To create a peace network, community members can grow flowers at home and keep a log of the bees that visit. These logs can then be posted to a collective website and community members can trade notes.
- Other faith communities can be invited to participate in this network. Who knows? Maybe the participants will discover that the bees do indeed visit the different houses of worship, spreading both pollen and peace.
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