INTEGRATION
I was finished with a long open house that I attended, it was around 2:00 in the afternoon, and I was really hungry. The boiled egg I had for breakfast at 7:30 was long gone. I drove and found some good quality fast food, and because it was such a beautiful day in So. Cal., decided to eat my lunch outside on their patio.
About halfway through my minced chicken, I noticed a few bees buzzing around, and then a few more, and then a whole lot more. Several other patrons noticed as well, and soon enough, panic ensued. A swarm of bees were everywhere and folks were practically knocking their tables over to race inside: plates, sodas, and chaos on the run. When the exodus ended, it was me and one other table of three people left on the patio. And the bees of course.
For a split second, I considered moving inside as well, then thought naw, this is too good to miss. As I sat back and observed the bees, I felt a sense of appreciation and balance. The bees were swarming, making loops and back-tracking, moving in circles and at varying speeds. It felt so artful, so predestined, so perfect. Their dance was so effortlessly choreographed, and I wished that Einstein had been sitting there with me to see the magnificence of the cohesiveness of life, just as he had explained it.
I became lost in my thoughts. Thoughts of commitment, purpose, intelligence, trust, sacrifice, nature and family. I don't know how much time went by, but I then realized that it was quiet, and the bees were not flying around me any more. I looked around and finally spotted them, thousands of them hanging in a huge oblong bundle from a tree branch in the parking lot. They were buzzing wildly, probably in an effort to keep their queen cool and protected, and yet I knew that they had landed temporararily in the tree to rest before moving on.
Something in me rested too, pleased that I had witnessed the power of symmetry, the guiding force in our lives that nudges us back to oneness, to balance, to wholeness.
