Honey is Eternal
Sep. 1st, 2013 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
browngirlThere's a lot I could and probably should be posting about, but I need happy news for my sore head today, so here's something neat and tasty. Honey lasts thousands of years if stored correctly. Here's why.
The world is so full of wonders. (And unwonderful things, I know.) Every time I find out about another I think of how much I love science for increasing our knowledge of and understanding of them.
Because I'm a romantic I found myself imagining an Egyptian girl carefully checking the seal on the pot of honey she holds, one more time, before setting it in her mother's tomb, her tear-sore cheeks stretching in a smile as she thinks of how her mother loved honey. Forty-five centuries later, an archaeologist uncovers the dusty pot and packs it up to go to the lab; she opens it and finds dark-golden honey, and her first thought is "My Dad would really have loved this honey," and her eyes prickle as she smiles, thinking of her Dad who encouraged her to study archaeology right up until he died.
Two women, linked across thousands of years by love and loss and life and honey.
The world is so full of wonders. (And unwonderful things, I know.) Every time I find out about another I think of how much I love science for increasing our knowledge of and understanding of them.
Because I'm a romantic I found myself imagining an Egyptian girl carefully checking the seal on the pot of honey she holds, one more time, before setting it in her mother's tomb, her tear-sore cheeks stretching in a smile as she thinks of how her mother loved honey. Forty-five centuries later, an archaeologist uncovers the dusty pot and packs it up to go to the lab; she opens it and finds dark-golden honey, and her first thought is "My Dad would really have loved this honey," and her eyes prickle as she smiles, thinking of her Dad who encouraged her to study archaeology right up until he died.
Two women, linked across thousands of years by love and loss and life and honey.
