Happy New Year to everyone and a special welcome to all the DIY Nutshell students who bought the 'Teach Yourself' version of the course. I hope it proves inspiring and helpful and that you will 'meet' a few likeminded people here. The sky's the limit as far as sharing work and email addresses etc is concerned.
Sadly I'm very preoccupied at the moment but I do find time to write - I MAKE time - and here's a little ditty I've just dashed off when I should be preparing to go out!
The Strength of a Spider’s Web
I’m reminded again of the power of fiction every time I see a spider.
As recently as this past summer I would kill a spider on sight because I’m afraid of them and I know how rapidly they breed. I couldn’t bear to think that ‘one today’ could mean a few hundred tomorrow so I’d squash it; such was my horror at the creatures.
But not any more.
A simple turnaround – not complete, I’m still afraid of them – occurred after reading Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. I came across it at my son’s house in November and I read it over the weekend while we stayed there. Never again can I think so badly of spiders, I can leave them quietly in the corner harming no-one.
Charlotte’s Web is a children’s story, published way back in the 1950s. I should’ve been given a copy as a child, it would’ve saved many a hiatus over the years and I might not have passed on my phobia to my own kids.
© Bernie Ross 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
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