Reading
Henri J.M. Nouwen's wonderfully candid
Genesee Diary. Passage below speaks for itself:
I spent the afternoon with Brother Henry at his beehives. This was my first encounter with the bees. Although I was well protected, one bee found its way into one of the legs of my pants. Well, he stung and died as a hero. A remarkable world. Now I am reading up on bees: Murray Hoyt's book, The World of Bees. There I found an example of American pragmatism that makes you cry. Based on the biblical expression of Israel as the "land flowing with milk and honey," Profesor Mykola H. Haydak wanted to test whether this were the perfect diet combination. After two months on a diet of milk and honey, "his skin became dry, pimples marred his face and whitish round spots appeared on his tongue" -- the obvious result of lack of vitamin C. "He added ten ounces of orange juice a day and all these symptoms disappeared." Hoyt remarks after describing the experiment: "So perhaps the 'land flowing with milk and honey' should be changed to 'a land flowing with milk and honey and ten ounces of range juice.' "
