My wonderful wife-like person has a desk job downtown. As we’re coming up on the end of the year, she decided it was time to do a little desk clean up. In one of the desk drawers she found a small jar of honey that she had stowed there some time ago. She’d brought the sweetener to work to have with her afternoon tea. Evidently she’d misplaced the jar and forgotten about it. She asked me if I thought the honey could still be edible.<\/p>\n
Ah, my sweet woman… One more reason to love you. You give me opportunities like these to validate my archive of trivial knowledge by applying it to common, everyday situations!<\/p>\n
The honey is definitely edible, I declared. Honey is the only food, in fact, that doesn’t go bad. Jars of it were pulled out of an ancient Egyptian tomb once upon a time and the samples were still good to go.<\/p>\n
Those bees know what they’re doing. Not to take anything away from the ancient Egyptians of course, but the pyramids are hardly what you’d call pristine anymore. As a matter of fact, you’d be hard pressed to come up with anything man-made that has the lasting integrity and appeal as bee-made honey. And these days the expiration term on things is just getting shorter and shorter.<\/p>\n
But not honey. Because bees don’t mess around. They don’t get distracted. They’ve got their one thing and they keep working on it. Day in and day out, generation after generation. They hone it. They refine it. They make it pure. Elemental.<\/p>\n
That’s how you make something with lasting integrity. Lasting appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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