A Raven for a Bumblebee

The title of my blog was formerly "Never Mistake a Raven for a Writing Desk". This was perhaps confusing to people who have never watched or remembered the riddle from "Alice in Wonderland" where odd creatures kept asking Alice why a raven is like a writing desk, then continued talking nonsense. I wondered for many years at this riddle. What was the solution? Or was it just a made up riddle with no solution that simply sounded poetic?

Then one day I asked Brother N why a raven is like a writing desk. He replied by telling me they both have quills. I don't know how he knew this, but I thought it very interesting and still very poetic. All of this came back to me when I began blogging, but I twisted it, making it more obscure, and confusing.

This confusion and obscurity is what has motivated me to change the title to something more palpable, and meaningful.

And here it is:

Bumblebees fly. Obviously. But according to science they can't. According to math they don't. The laws of science and math say that the bumblebee's wings are to small in proportion to its body and could not lift it into the air. But bumblebees don't know the laws of science and math, so they unwittingly fly from flower to flower bumbling and buzzing all the way.

I think that is interesting. It is interesting that somethings in this world defy the logical laws of math and science. Some things in this world just are, and there is no rhyme or reason behind their function.

So by living laws Man cannot comprehend, to me bumblebees testify of Divinity.