La Vita Nuova

Well, it’s a new life out here.

Since I’ve had a lot of time off to twiddle my thumbs since I’ve been home, a few very random things have popped into my head:

- The daddy long legs is one of the world’s most poisonous spiders. Its venom could kill an elephant in half a heartbeat. And yet the daddy long legs is not even remotely as frightening as the black widow or the brown hobo spider. Why? Because the daddy long legs has no delivery mechanism for its powerful venom. It can’t even pierce human skin. I kind of feel sorry for the daddy long legs. It has the potential - but not the follow through - for greatness.

- The leading cause of death among beavers is falling trees.

I’ve been reading a lot too. I tore through Meg Wolitzer’s The Wife and am now on to Isabel Allende’s newest novel, her take on the story of Zorro. I’m about 70 pages into it and already all aquiver with excitement. Diego de la Vega, will you marry me?