Bees and butterflies are garden friends not foes. These two are beautiful creatures of God and its splendor provides magical glorious miraculous spectrum of light and colors within our surrounding...within our environment. When we view them floating, flying and fluttering in the wind or flew from one flowers to another you and me can sense of nostalgic aura of immense sublime creationism. They are insects who propagate this world of us just like human beings. They gathered food even seek their food from as far as their wings can fly then go back home to deliver the fruit of their loom or labor to their family. They never stop working. They keep busy most of the time.
One day while I was busy cooking viand for our lunch in the kitchen I noticed a small bee that passed through the sliding glass door (french door actually) and it flew right there on the window front of our kitchen sink. It stayed for quite a while then flew closer to the food that I'm cooking in that particular time. There are other bees who came in and I was frantic trying to shoo them away. I hate bee stings or being bitten by a bee. Scary! I closed the french door after I finished the food that I cooked and went to continue my sewing work in the living room. When I returned to the kitchen I noticed the bee was on the window sill not moving. There is no movement whatsoever. Looks like it fell from the glass window and its now dead and dry because the window is really hot. The temperature that day was over 30 degrees celsius (centigrade). Real hot that you can see the heatwave. Can you see a heatwave on hot weather? I can.
I lifted the dead bee from the window sill to the counter beside the sink and watch it for a while. There's no movement for a given period of one minute to half an hour even additional hours. Sleeping not dead? I haven't seen a bee that sleeps. It's dead! With my magnifying lens checking if its breathing or not or any movement all ? None whatsoever!
Later in the afternoon my husband and my daughter went to the garden at Dad's house in the next three blocks from our house and harvested some vegetables: zucchini, swisschards, green beans and big head of cabbage. The biggest head of cabbage that I've ever seen. Took some souvenir photos and then left the garden and went back home to prepare dinner. After dinner as I want to retrieve something from the garage I almost step something on the stairs...there's a greyish moth on the stairs. I touched it and I knew it was alive because it moves. I brought the moth upstairs and placed it beside the bee, still on the counter beside the sink.
You know what happened?
You really, really want to know what happened?
Suddenly the lifeless dead body of the bee moves. It crawls. I couldn't believe what's happening right in that moment of awe and awakening. I first thought I was dreaming. How could a bee that's dry and lifeless for so many hours is now alive and moves. It moves slowly for a while and when I was about to touch it the bee finally regained its strenght and flew right out of the sliding glass door leaving behind the greyish brown moth.
You don't believe me? I myself couldn't believe what had just happened. It could be a transformation of another life.
Sublime? Who knows?!
