We Fear The Weta

On account of me doing grounds keeping while I am in New Zealand, I thought it would be prudent to do some reconnaissance on the potentially hazardous. Positive aspects of working in New Zealand include:
-Only 2 poisonous spiders (and one is an endangered species)
-No poisonous snakes (unfortunately, there are no snakes at all)
-Poison ivy is rare (woohoo-haroo!)
-It is a pretty safe place.

I did however stumble across something of peculiar interest. Some of you may recall a particular film industry related company called Weta Workshops. They did work for The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, etc... And one of their trademark symbols is an cricket-looking insect. I recently found out that that cricket-looking insect is, in fact, a weta... and they get pretty big. They can also bite you, and while not poisonous, they can still hurt. A lot.

I am not actually very concerned about this, but it serves as a good analogy to the things bigger than insects. So many things, unseen, un-experienced, before. Today I leave for Arlington, and tomorrow for New Zealand. Maybe everything will go as planned, I dunno. But the one thing I AM sure of is that I am not in control of anything! And that's a good thing. Not a bad thing.

And I'm sure I will try to avoid the angry wetas. But evidently, according to the picture, they don't just go around biting people, it is sitting so nicely on the person's hand. ooo, behold another metaphor: the things we usually fear, or worry about, aren't really that important in light of eternity. Unless of course the weta on her hand is dead, in which case they still could be ferocious, biting, beasties with anger management problems. And in that case my analogy is pretty much hosed no matter how you look at it.

oh well, I'm not too worried about the wetas. but i probably will still try to avoid them if i can...