I don’t know… [Go! 10 minutes]

I don’t know about the stars and the trees and the leaves. But really I do. When I gaze into something, give it my sweetest, deepest attention, I learn so much. Nature, our greatest teacher is always there for us. The spider shows us patience creating her web and then hanging, waiting oh-so patiently. I breathe with her. And please let me be clear, this is not a massive black or brown hairy spider, this is a small, under the size of a quarter, spider. The bigger aforementioned spiders can teach us about fear.

Many of us have this great, reasonable fear of these types of spiders. When I was staying at a friend’s home for two months, in what we call indoor spider season, there were a fair amount of these large spiders— large to me is bigger than the palm of my hand. These ones I don’t sit close to, I usually relocate them with a tupperware container and a sturdy piece of cardboard—not  a flimsy piece of white paper that I often see people using, oh, no, sturdy and thinnish is good. The trick is to have confidence in your first maneuver of placing the said container over the giant spider. Sometimes I let out a bit of a scream or a few small ones while doing the trapping part. And then there’s the ever so much harder part, the sliding  of the sturdy cardboard underneath the tupperware. I notice some spiders are trickier and will start moving around really fast searching for an opening. Others can be more chill, still. I like these one more. The zen ones!…

© Jackie L Hutchings | November 15/21