Buddhism

I don't kill anything. Not even spiders or ants. I found and photographed my first black widow, ever in my lifetime, last summer. She was beautiful. She was HUGE. Probably had a million babies in her but I just watched and photographed from a distance. She was by my garage.

I live in a rural setting, surrounded by life of every variety; pastures with cows and a handful of chickens. I share my place with two cats that found and adopted me. The first cat wasn't much of a threat to mice. He'd catch one or two, here and there. Mostly, the mice just laughed at us.

The second cat showed up last summer. She is a stone cold rodent killer. She seems to be fine with her cat karma and I'm relieved that the mouse invasion inside my house has been reduced to the occasional straggler. I haven't actually seen evidence of a mouse in almost a year.

Circle of life.

TYY