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🐝 Telling the Bees
Emily Polk traces the ancient practice of 'telling the bees' when someone dies — a ritual some 600 years old, born of the belief that bees carry messages between the living and the dead (when Elizabeth II died, the royal beekeeper informed the palace hives). She weaves her own grief into a
Emily Polk traces the ancient practice of 'telling the bees' when someone dies — a ritual some 600 years old, born of the belief that bees carry messages between the living and the dead (when Elizabeth II died, the royal beekeeper informed the palace hives). She weaves her own grief into a tapestry of myth and interconnection, following a Yemeni beekeeper through Oakland and asking what it might mean for bees themselves to grieve — and the way animals, perhaps more than humans, can hold grief without needing to explain it.
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