Feral Friends,

Everything in our world vibrates just ask your local physicist, mystic, or bee and those of the genus Bombus pollinate blossoms by buzzing and quivers trembling free the pollen 

preciously kept beyond their comically stumpy tongues. (A swami once told me that bees buzz in accordance with the Om ॐ but alas — ! — he got it backwards as bumblebee frequencies precede 

and preceded hominid imitations.) Let us peel back the petals clasping tightly our souls let our deepest potencies be bumbled free by Bombus vibrations, or if you prefer, your

multicolor chakras but it takes only one, this time of year try goldenrod or snakeroot white or sunflower yellow or native thistle-purple.

Time for plan bee.

— Jack Phillips

_{A few days before Autumnal Equinox, members of The Naturalist School conducted a bumble bee survey on Pawnee land in cooperation with the Xerxes Society’s Bumble Bee watch. Many native  bumble bee species are endangered or threatened. They are vital to local ecosystems, agriculture, and to human life, community, spirituality and culture. All specimens captured during our survey were gently chilled, identified, photographed, recorded and carefully freed. All photos by Kristin Zahra.}