Last week it was spiders, crawling along the curtains, lurking in the bathtub, big North Carolinian wolf spiders. This week it appears to be alligators and crocodiles. They have shown up, not in person thank goodness, but in three quotes sent to me and in some email correspondence.
Here are two of the quotes I received, I can’t remember the third one.
"Leave a log in the water as long as you like: it will never be a crocodile!" --Proverb (Guinea-Bissau)
“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.” Chuck Palahniuk
Most of you who have been with me long enough remember the summer of the snakes. Real life snakes crawling in my yard and one large nest of them I ended up standing in. Alligators don’t particularly care for mountains for which I am grateful.
Whenever an animal appears repeatedly in my life, I like to ponder the aspects which might teach me something. With spiders it is easy, spiders are weavers and I am a weaver of words. I could take that farther and drive my friend who does not believe in anything supernatural crazy, but I won’t.
Instead, I’ll simply move on to the alligators and crocodiles who are both very good mothers. Unlike other reptiles they actually have been known to help their little ones hatch and reach the water. And they are destroyers, powerful dragon like creatures patrolling the banks of the rivers and waters they live in. They are representative of birth and death, beginnings and endings. That feels right.
There are junctures in life where decisions can have life altering consequences. The birth of one set of beliefs leads to the death of others and the battle in between could be a fiery one!
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