Hello, and April greetings to all of you from Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee and me! We’re grateful to have you as part of our hive, a hive of goodness, kindness, calmness, and, of course, honey! 😉🐝
There are two beautiful holidays this month that help celebrate and support the environment: The first is Earth Day on April 22nd, which marks the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. I remember being in college when this began, and my friends and I thought this was fun. Little did we realize how crucial this celebration of the Earth was! This important holiday offers us a chance to pay attention to how we’re supporting our precious Earth and its inhabitants, including, of course, Jazi and all of her family, and to see what more we can do to protect it. The little guide below reminds us that from composting to recycling to planting a garden, there are significant actions we can take, as well as teach our children, that will help sustain our planet. https://brevardzoo.org/news/10-easy-ways-celebrate-earth-day-year-long/
Arbor Day, April 24th, honors the future of our planet by focusing on planting and protecting trees. If you have the space to do so, planting a tree with your child also plants a precious memory for them. Although I didn’t have that opportunity as a young one, I hugged many a tree when I was little (and big! 😉) and can still remember the sense of awe and calm I received. I grew up with a Paper Birch tree that I would regularly peel off its thin bark and write little notes. My memories of that beautiful tree and the emotional support it gave me are so strong, even decades later.
Even if you can’t plant a tree, you can take the time to hug a tree, to marvel at the veins in its leaves, to possibly even find a bird nest that you hadn’t noticed before. Jazianzza adamantly urges us to pay more attention to nature and encourage our children to turn to trees, flowers, and insects, not just technology. Several times in her memoir, Bee-Coming Strong, she noticed little things in the hope that her readers would want to bee-come aware of those things, as well. Unless we notice something, we can’t possibly be in a position to want to protect and support it.
Speaking of Jazi, she asked me to pass this fun little craft on to you. She would love you to draw a big smile and add two antennas on the bees, as well. If you want, you could make them out of pipe cleaners and even make one bent, in honor of our sweet little Jazi! Here you go…
This month, a rocket ship circled the moon — a stunning example of how far human curiosity and ingenuity can take us. But Jazi wants us to remember that the universe is right beneath our feet, too! Lifting a rock to find a whole world of tiny creatures going about their lives or pausing to watch a bee land on a flower is its own kind of wonder. We don’t have to travel to the moon to be awestruck. The miracle is already here, waiting to be noticed. Jazianzza and I wish you a month of wonder, awe, and deeper awareness of our beautiful planet and all the life it supports.
Bee well and thrive,
Jazi and Anandamayi 🐝🙏🏼🐝
All life is relationship – with others, with nature, with the universe, and with the little flower in the field.
— Krishnamurti