Heartnotes

Dear Beautiful Ones,      Sometimes the best laid plans don’t always seem to bring the desired result. Often we give up just when the very thing that we have been working toward is about to come to light. “If you take a look around you and pay attention to the natural world, then you will understand how things work,” a great medicine man once told me.      Several weeks ago, a little spider came to my room and decided to make a home for himself inside the window sill next to my bed. He was all alone in that window and wasn’t any bigger than a speck of dirt. Every day I watched that spider. At first he didn’t seem to be making much progress and even wondered what he was eating to stay alive. Slowly he built a thin spiral web that went down into the groove of the window sill. Each day I watched that spider, and each day that little spider made progress. The thin web became pretty thick after spinning layer upon layer. Since I never saw any food, I figured little spider must have