Day 8 : What's in the Middle-The Bird and the Bee

A great mist falls over St. Olaf Campus. It is eerily quiet save for the light patter of rain on windows and gutters. A Grey Hound bus snakes its way through the Buntrock parking lot disturbing the silence as an empty elevator opens on the tenth floor of Mohn tower. It is a quarter past three in the afternoon and a girl decides that today is as good a day as any to become a bee-keeper. She knows it won't bee easy. There will be many obstacles and she will be quite alone in this endeavor. The road will be long and hard and she will surely feel the sharp sting of many a hard day's work. There will likely be tears. She will look for comfort and solace in her friends and family and find that there is none to be had. She will face much ridicule and at times she will regret putting all of her bees in one bonnet, so to speak. She will put countless hours into this enterprise and when she looks to those she loves for encouragement she will find only downcast eyes and heads shaking in obvious disapproval. But she will never give up. She will never lay down her Tulle Head-Veil with zipper and leather vented gloves. She will never take off her mesh helmet and throw it to the ground in a moment of desperation. She will work tirelessly hour after hour as she is an excellent worker. She will tend to her bees with the all of the courage she can muster and all of the strength she can gather for she knows that one day she will have swarms of supporters.

Song of the Day: What's in the Middle by The Bird and the Bee

"It's lucky it's dark...I haven't blushed so much since Madame Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs." APWBD