"These three wall hangings, a five-dollar bill, a plaque, and a quote, each remind me of the different layers of experience provided through my travels with beekeepers." I write in a tiny office at home, barcly closet sized, without the luxury of space to accumulate stuff. In some perverse way the teeniness of my work environment has forced me to organize my thoughts sharply, and to rely on memory rather than stacks of reference material to inspire my writing. My wall space is particularly sparse,and I have had to be highly selective in choosing the memories that look down upon me as I compose. Each carefully chosen plaque, drawing, or poster reminds me of a particular time and place, evoking a cascade of reminiscence from a life-time of traveling to and from bees and beekeepers.
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