The only positive thing I can think of that has come from the self-quarantine resulting from the pandemic–besides my son and I talking long distance every day–is that I’ve availed myself of the habit of waking up thinking.That is, I just lay there and think. This morning I knew I’d had a good-feeling dream but it had disappeared. I tried the process of free association to the images that came to me, and by “free associating” via images to my images I got back to my dream, which was a good one. More anon about thoughts that came to me after coffee.
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In the Neighborhood of Verse
Published August 3, 2018 by Nan MykelEARLY MORNING AWAKENING
It was 6:09 when I crept from bed.
Queen sheets often trip me but
I made it up and out of my room
to safety. I read too much I’ll grant
you that. You’d best quit reading this.
I’d seen a squib abut copperheads
in a closet nest, and I’d just read
about more than a hundred species
of arthropods found in the average
home, listed for our pleasure surely:
a few spiders, millipedes, booklice,
silverfish, ants, midges, flies, rolypolys…
They didn’t count bedbugs because
too few—and of course the R word.
They weren’t counting snakes.
Back to me: I heard a click near my
ear. Or was that a rattle? A presence
beside me in my bed! Remember I’m
just waking up, emerging from dreams
to this!* — Nan
*Although a house can feel empty when you’re the only one home, it isn’t really. A typical human household includes roughly 100 species of insects, spiders and other arthropods just milling around at the edges of the room, eating little bits of hair and dead insects. Rather than reaching for the bug spray, people should be excited that they live alongside so many other species ….Get to know your bug bunkmates, higher occurrence in more affluent homes. (Compilation of wisdom from Google).
See articles from Atlantic, Mother Nature Network, N.C. State News, Time, Chicago Tribune and especially https://peerj.com/articles/1582/ (for a table of the bugs found).
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