The idea came to me when I went to the honey lab sale at the university I work at and saw the cute little beehive-shaped honey pot with honey dipper that has a cute little wooden be on the end. CUTE! I added a container of honey, a honey recipe booklet, a tube of beeswax lip balm, a citrus-honey candle, some honey lemon drops, and a bee-stamped notepad. The card has this quotation:
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge.
We are perpetually on the way thither, being by
nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
----Friedrich Nietzsche
Wow! Those are awesome gift baskets. They are going to LOVE them! Wonderful job. I love the quote you put with it!
ReplyDeleteI like the quotation, too except for the clause, "by nature we are winged insects." Huh? It'd be different if the next clause was introduced with a comma, then the honey-gathering of the mind would be an explanation. But there's the 'and,' meaning we're insects AND honey gatherers of the mind. Where's the metaphor in being a 'winged insect'?
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