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Your "boozy spider" had me. 🤣 Oh, the ways in which you spin your words are much like your new found friend, intricate and also long lasting. No moving digs when it's so great in your crib. This IS so refreshing to read, Katrina, I just love it. Can't wait for Earth Expeience #2, but I guess I'll have to. 🕷️🕸️💚

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Joanie, you always know just what to say to make a girl's day. :) Our spider friend has come back and built herself new webs three nights in a row now. We've named her Charlotte. XO

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Oh Katrina, what a heartfelt analogy. I share your disdain of spiders, and to be honest, I was thinking of my own fearful moments (one in particular) until you used this as a life lesson about learning to share space with creatures and humans we don't understand or even fear. It's such a powerful abs important lesson.

I think my lifelong love of nature, including saving the tiniest of critters, like gnats, emerges from my profound respect for all things living. I've firmly believed we can all figure out how to share this one beautiful planet, but we tend to act more like toddlers instead of adults.

I'm drawn to the helpless animals. I want to shield them, shelter them, save them. I felt this way in school, too, about the outcasts and outliers. I never wanted anyone to feel lonely or ostracized, because I knew that pain. So I sought out the ones who didn't have anyone to hang out with, and I got to know some incredible people. Maybe that's why I love to hear about people's lives.

Thanks for sharing yours. ❤️

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I found out my spider friend is an orb weaver. They build webs at night, tear them down in the morning, and then rebuild them again at night. She showed up again last night in a brand new web in the same place. I have to admit, this did not make me happy. I was hoping she had moved on, but I'm trying to make peace with her decision to stay. Another life lesson. <3

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Omg I literally JUST spotted a daddy longlegs in my shower! I guess now my radar is up to watch out for these arachnids!

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We have orb spiders in our garden, too! They look super scary but apparently are beneficial to the landscape and even in warding off pesky bugs that eat our veggies.

Making peace with her decision to stay...hmm, that sounds like it could spearhead another essay, Katrina!

I could tell you about my spider story sometime. :)

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Not all heroes wear capes!!

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Some wear muumuus! (Or should! ;) ) XOXO

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Well, for your inaugural Earth Experience essay I think you nailed it! Nature, kindness, compassion, humor--well done! I look forward to more earthy experiences! xo

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Thanks, my friend. I'm happy you're here. XO

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Well, geez... I wasn't prepared to experience allllllll the emotions so bright and early this morning, but I guess I should know by now that Katrina can turn a close encounter with a spider into a beautiful ode to peacefully co-existing with one another! I am wiping away tears of laughter and tenderness. This was just beautiful, my friend.

P.S. I ❤️ Julie and her tender regard for all creepy crawlies and flying annoyances.

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You and Julie have similar hearts: Kind and generous. I love you, friend. XO

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