Beyond materiality !

A Lynx spider on jasmine flowers in our garden!  

I was surprised to find out that these spiders have keen eye sight and active hunting abilities. They do not weave a web to catch the prey. They hide in plants mostly on flowers where they can ambush the prey! The green ones can spit venom as a defence mechanism. They are speedy runners and leapers although they tend to be ambush hunters most of the times.  

So much is known about this spider and its behaviour which is only one cm in size. 

The striped Lynx spider is attributed to be a biological control agent, protecting the plant! But they are predators of pollinators. 

They are known to be tolerant of the other spiders of their species. 

I notice the lynx spider only when I edit the phots taken. As photos are taken often from a distance, one can miss seeing them with naked eyes. 

The red striped Lynx spider is the common one in our garden!

Pardon me for returning to Gaza and the war of the two years. Now sense has dawned on most leaders about the wisdom of seeking for peace! Many cynics consider this a tactic of the current president of the USA to compel the Nobel committee to consider him for the Nobel peace prize. That is politics and let me leave it to those who are political in behaviour!

The outcome of the war is a devastated Gaza and traumatised residents! An environmental enthusiast commented that it would take fifty years or more to have the flora and fauna of the region restored. Loss of 60, 000 lives, hundreds of residential facilities, schools, hospitals, water and electric supply...... !

The Gaza is a devastated territory! 

This is the 80 the year of the formation of the UNO, when nations pledged to live in peace! 

The material view of life is what is dominant in global engagement! Humanity is more than materiality!

Humans are people of relationships and altruism! 

Have we lost this heart of the humanity ! 

The volunteers who sent ships with provisions to Gaza recently tell us that humanity is still alive !

In that sense it is both a lamentation and celebration time!

The lynx spider is only a symbol of the least of the life around us! 

We behave in a civilised and responsible manner only when we treasure the earth and protect the terrain with its inhabitants ! 

M.C.Mathew( text and photo)