A dream, a kind of waking vision, worthy of belief. — 2 Maccabees 15:11
In August of this year, a large brown house spider took up residence outside one of my windows. At first she frightened me, but when I realized she could never enter the apartment and that I had a first-rate view of all her activities, I became very attached. She wove wondrous webs that spanned the entirety of the window, and mostly worked during the night. Every day at around 9:00 or 10:00 a.m., or whenever the sun got too hot for her to sit under comfortably, she went off to I know not where. I called it her “office.” She would come back faithfully, every evening, at sundown. If the web had been ravaged during the day or swept by late summer winds, she simply rebuilt it and placed herself back at its center. This window was her “homeplace.” And I felt graced by her presence, and by the opportunity to watch a creature so diligently live her destiny.
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