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Bee kind

We've had 3 days of rain straight. Today the sun came out and it felt like a miracle. It really makes one take stock of everything and realize what we take for granted.
I was soaking up some much needed rays out back when I noticed a carpenter bee that was drowning in our kiddie pool. I rescued it and let it try to recover but it wasn't doing very well. It was soaked and couldn't flap its wings.  It was trying to crawl up the steep side of its familiar flower pot but wasn't quite making it. I decided to let it alone and let nature be nature.
A few minutes later, I couldn't watch the bee struggle anymore so I put it inside the flower pot.  All of a sudden, it began to flap it's wings like a normal bee and took off in to the back yard.
It was as though the bee's familiar setting gave it the confidence to remember what it was and what it was capable of doing.

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