The red-domed lady bug makes its way around the edge of the washroom sink. Lower down, near the drain, another one shuffles. I find a piece of paper and lift the second one to a safer place on the window sill. Then I reach for my toothbrush and toothpaste and turn on the tap. What do these tiny bugs feel I wonder. Do they suffer like us if overwhelmed by a torrent of running water?
spring sunshine
life throngs through the window seams
miniature beings
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Ontheland 
Interesting and well written.
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Thank you 🙂
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A true sign of grace is compassion for things you could easily be rid of. What a beautiful thought. Wonderful haiku as well, sunshine for all to enjoy
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Thank you, Walter
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Yes ma’am
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Your writing vividly conveys that sense of hopelessness we sometimes feel when we unwittingly kill little insects.
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It’s a difficult territory for sure.
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Here we get tiny little red bugs that come only a certain month out of the year! Hard to tell what lady bugs think. Even harder to tell what human lady bugs thing!!
Dwight
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Ha Ha! 🙂 but on a more serious note it’s their experience of physical pain I was wondering about…
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Perhaps as you wash them down the sink drain!?
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I try to avoid it but it does happen.
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LOL. Sometimes I lose my compassion with bugs and ants!
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Most of us lose compassion with bugs….some of us more than others. Fortunately the biggest indoor invasion here is lady bugs and they are fairly harmless.
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This is great! I especially liked this line in your haiku — “life throngs through the window seams”
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Thank you, Jo
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Interesting thought about those lady bugs. They need compassion as well and you provided it for them.
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A wonderful write Janice. I do believe even the smallest of creatures can experience a range of emotions and I too, feel bad when I don’t notice flushing something down the plughole before it is too late and tend to say a little prayer for them. I love your closing haiku, especially the imagery in ‘life throngs through the window seams’. Thank you for joining in! :o) xxx
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Thank you, Xenia 🙂
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This is the way to be, Janice. I love the way you have explained Buddhist philosophy in a simple, everyday anecdote about behaviour we would love to see everywhere.I’d love to know what animals and insects feel. I love the phrase: ‘life throngs through the window seams’ – a wonderful wakening of miniature beings after their winter sleep.
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Thank you Kim. I’ll never forget learning about the Jains how they will never harm a living thing no matter how small. It can be challenging to avoid at times but something to aspire to.
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Excellent… I do the same even with hornets and spiders.
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That must be quite a careful manoeuvre with a hornet 🙂
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