Tiny Owl Dispatch No. 4: I Hate Spiders... And I Love Them, Too
The story of my friend, Olivia, and how she and my nature journal are helping me to overcome my fear of spiders
When Olivia showed up on my doorstep many, many summers ago, I wasn’t actually the best hostess. You see, I wouldn’t say I like it when guests show up unannounced. I need some warning to straighten up the house, make food, and psyche myself up (I’m an introvert, and we need time to prepare to entertain mentally).
But there she was, making herself at home in the bush next to my front steps and adjacent to the strawberry plants I had planted a couple of weeks before in my railing boxes, where incidentally a family of Japanese beetle had been dining for the last few days. She set up her quarters.
Her presence was creeping me out, and I had murderous thoughts.
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