+ quote of the day

“Outside, the moon had come out. It was full, a disk of bright silver. I saw a large, dramatic spider web on my back porch that must have been made while I was in the house with my mind in turmoil; the spider was just finishing the outer circle of it. The moon illuminated the strands of the big taut web so that it seemed to be made of pure light. It was dazzling, geometric, and mysterious, and it calmed me just to stop and look at it, at the elaboration and power of life that could make such a design.
The spider completed its work while I watched, and then picked its stilted way to the center of the web, took a position, and sat there waiting.”

-Walter Tevis, “Mockingbird”