Creepy Crawlies
Jul. 11th, 2011 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
If we could only see the bee, or the bird, or our enemy as a brief living center like ourselves, we could let them go on their way without pulling us into opposition.
I totally get the sentiment that the author meant when he talked about the yellow jacket and the impulse he used to have, because of his mother, to swat the little buggers whenever they came near, and also that this wasn't really the point of what he was saying – he wasn't espousing the yellow-jacket's right to life and all that, just the view that we shouldn't really see ourselves in opposition to any living creature, but for me this entry has a totally other meaning right now.
About to head out to NC, I'm getting ready to face a few things – some, I will confess with a can of Raid in my hand, (or a big rolled up newspaper). The spiders have to go. There are no two ways about it. I will not have my guy being uncomfortable with them being around. Mir makes no secret of the fact that she is scared of spiders, so it's my job to rid the house of them wherever and whenever I find them, their cobwebs too, and I don't at all mind doing it.
For myself, though, two big 'fears' if you like make some of the things I want for us to do while I'm there a daunting thought. First of all there are the stinging things. They are 'bigger' and 'better' than our weedy little yellow jackets over here in the UK… and being allergic to stings, I'll run if a buzzing thing buzzes near me – and if I'm by myself, it has to be the Raid. The other thing that really really makes my flesh creep, just the thought of them, are the deer ticks. It's not just the fact of the diseases they carry, just… ugh! I can't even…
Anyway – I want to be able to lie in the hammock, or in the grass with Mir as we read together, and spend long summer days outside on the weekend and in the evenings. We can keep the mosquitoes at bay with the 'Off' lamps, but what about those pesky ticks? It's the one and only thing I'm really going to have to work on, because those long summer days are for being out in the fresh air!
Who sees all beings in his own Self
and his own Self in all beings,
loses all fear.
--The Isa Upanishad
If we could only see the bee, or the bird, or our enemy as a brief living center like ourselves, we could let them go on their way without pulling us into opposition.
I totally get the sentiment that the author meant when he talked about the yellow jacket and the impulse he used to have, because of his mother, to swat the little buggers whenever they came near, and also that this wasn't really the point of what he was saying – he wasn't espousing the yellow-jacket's right to life and all that, just the view that we shouldn't really see ourselves in opposition to any living creature, but for me this entry has a totally other meaning right now.
About to head out to NC, I'm getting ready to face a few things – some, I will confess with a can of Raid in my hand, (or a big rolled up newspaper). The spiders have to go. There are no two ways about it. I will not have my guy being uncomfortable with them being around. Mir makes no secret of the fact that she is scared of spiders, so it's my job to rid the house of them wherever and whenever I find them, their cobwebs too, and I don't at all mind doing it.
For myself, though, two big 'fears' if you like make some of the things I want for us to do while I'm there a daunting thought. First of all there are the stinging things. They are 'bigger' and 'better' than our weedy little yellow jackets over here in the UK… and being allergic to stings, I'll run if a buzzing thing buzzes near me – and if I'm by myself, it has to be the Raid. The other thing that really really makes my flesh creep, just the thought of them, are the deer ticks. It's not just the fact of the diseases they carry, just… ugh! I can't even…
Anyway – I want to be able to lie in the hammock, or in the grass with Mir as we read together, and spend long summer days outside on the weekend and in the evenings. We can keep the mosquitoes at bay with the 'Off' lamps, but what about those pesky ticks? It's the one and only thing I'm really going to have to work on, because those long summer days are for being out in the fresh air!
