Tea for the Bees, Tonic for the Soul

Reader Contribution by Anna Alkin
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Last year, I took my seven-year-old son, Ian, to see a documentary about bees called Queen of the Sun. The movie cataloged the various problems facing honey bees in our world, and likely moved on to tell inspiring stories of folks working to solve the crisis, but I wouldn’t know. I didn’t get to see the end of it.

About halfway through the movie, Ian turned to me with tears streaming down his cheeks saying, “I want to go. I can’t take any more.” For a moment, I almost tried to talk him into staying, but looking at him I realized I had made a mistake. In going to see this documentary, I had broken my own rule about avoiding talk of environmental issues, or disturbing world events, unless Ian had need of the information for his immediate life.

“You really screwed up”, he said to me angrily as we left the pizza place that was showing the

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