in significance
2 years ago
today, during a meeting, i noticed a tiny red spider on a page of notes which was handed to me, fresh and still warm from the printer. i watched it speed across the paper to the edge and disappear to the other side. i turned the page to glimpse the small spider once again, but all i found was a tiny red smear of blood. it was so fragile that the weight of paper turning squished it. :(
i googled “tiny red spider” and learned it was probably a chigger. ha! i didn’t imagine chiggers would be tiny and bright red and live in an office printer.
*edit. i saw a photo of a chigger and that wasn’t it. i believe now that it must have been a tiny red spider mite.
