I’m not sure what it means, but as I moved back in to my cabin after a raucous, action-packed weekend, Mother Nature gave me a sign. There was a fly in my room buzzing around my light high above my head. It was very loud, which prompted violent retaliation on my part. I threw everything that I could think of at it that would not be hard enough to break the light, but would be hard enough to break the fly (socks, papers, a stuffed animal (this was as far as I got). I then left the cabin to retrieve a bag from my car and upon my return, the fly was making a terrible buzzing noise that sounded a lot more distressed and actually panicked. I looked up to see what was going on and it turns out that it had flown into the spiderweb hanging around my light long enough for the spider to mount the fly and begin the slow process of killing it. The spider was smaller than the fly, but it hung on as the fly thrashed about wildly. Eventually the fly’s “cry” spat and sputtered and eventually fizzled out. That spider performed the task that I was unable to perform myself (killing the fly without breaking the light). If I could high-five that spider I would.
More details to come, but exciting stories to come include drunk rafting, a 20-hour trip to the big city to see an opera, and the conclusion of teaching a whole ton of lessons that I know nothing about. Stay tuned for when I have more time.
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