
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and struggling to settle into her new job and home. Then friends gift her a colony of honeybeesāa gift that, according to folklore, brings good luckāand Jukes embarks on the rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper.
Jukes writes about what it means to "keep" wild creatures and to live alongside beings whose laws of life are so different from our own. She delves into the history of beekeeping, exploring the ancientāand sometimes disturbingārelationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing. And as her colony grows, the very act of beekeeping seems to open new perspectives, making her world come alive again. A beautifully wrought meditation on uncertainty and hope, feelings of restlessness and home, and how we might better know ourselves, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings shows us how to be alert to these small creatures flitting among us that are yet so vital a force for the continuation of life.
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Table of contents
- 1 Doorway
- 2 Hive
- 3 Bee
- 4 Orientation
- 5 Losing Sight
- 6 Swarm
- 7 Honey
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index