Butterfly Insights
By Joie Lake
A marvelous lesson appeared for me just now as I was exiting thru the garage,
to come to this little playplace they call an office.
As I opened the garage door, I startled a large moth, which, upon spreading
it's wings, displayed a bright red "tail" hidden by the motley brown wings,
more a "butterfly" than a moth.
It flew immediately to its perceived escape, the circle-topped window where it
frantically tried to exit thru the invisible wall of closed glass.
I raised the third-car garage door in hopes of aiding it's escape. That caused
it to fly higher and higher and become entangled in a spider web. Fearful
that it would remain entangled in the web, I selected a long-handled broom to
assist him escaping the tangled threads.
At this, he returned to furiously pumping his wings and banging into the
glass, which was, in his perspective, the pathway of escape, but remained his
cage.
By simply turning his focus to one side, he would have easily exited his
prison. Rather, due to his intent on one direction, he remained confined,
captive.
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