The spider is merely following its DNA directions.
Sometimes things fall into the web the spider doesn't want to eat.
Sometimes the helpless victim dies anyway.
Sometimes the web is destroyed.
Such a variety of webs; beautiful, utilitarian, visible, practically invisible.
Sometimes we don't even know we've walked into a web until we feel a bit of discomfort.
All kinds of webs.
Shit happens.
Fractals be.
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I've got a beauty of a web outside my back doors right now made by a very nice orb weaver but he/she keeps drawing that one thread across to the side of the door that opens and bam! I get it right across the face.
You're right...shit DOES happen.
This is a spectacular web.
I have a different phrase. Because it isn't always bad. But "it is what it is". Whether it appears to be "good" or "bad" -- it is neither: "it is what it is"
I came to this realization when both of my parents became ill. I'm very grateful for the realization, because it disarmed any anger or anxiety I might have otherwise felt.
It was just something to deal with; sad, perhaps, but not "bad". And not "fate" either. That's why I don't use the phrase "que sera, sera -- what will be, will be". To me that is too fatalistic, or deterministic.
No, I like "it is what it is".
It is what it is. And, we don't need to bother with labeling all the "its" with "good" or "bad." How…dualistic!
Interesting observation as I was comparing the two phrases. "It is what it is" is present oriented. "Que sera, sera" is future oriented. Gotta ponder that a bit.
Heyjules, I LOVE orb weavers. Especially the ones we call corn spiders, all yellow and black and beautiful. Oh, ok. I love them from at least a foot away…
:-)
I'd be a bit disconcerted if it were true that what will be will not be.... or even may not be.I suspect that dismissal of such a simple "an apple is an apple" expression such as "que sera, sera" is from the realm of grant dependent coffee house intellectualism rather than actual spiritual consciousness. That would be the upscale stream of conversation that would come up with "an apple is only an apple until it is eaten and then it is shit."
So I'll accept "what will be, will be: and "it is what it is" as of equal merit. Either and a $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee if you are adept at reverse time travel.
Well, hell. When I posted that pic and made my comments, I had a specific situation in mind. After it was up, I realized that I could just stay stuck and whine or I could attempt to cut and run.
Hmm. Cut and run. Republican sneers to the contrary, sometimes cutting and running is a good thing. Unless, of course, one happens to belong to the Frodo Baggins school whereby one is given a magical sword with which to slay spiders larger than life.
There are no magical swords. Spiders are not larger than life. Which doesn't mean the little critters can't bite and kill.
The current sticky web is one of words. We are bagged by the spider, hanging by a thread, and with words are trying to describe whether we're swinging east to west or west to east.
I'm cutting, running, and finding that coffee.
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