This is the actual spider spinning her web by moonlight.
Earlier this month while I was in Florida I watched a spider spin her web by moonlight. She is the type of spider who makes a fresh web each night and takes it down in the morning, and she was nearly done with her handiwork. I didn't see what happened, but a few minutes later the web was broken and completely down. It might have been a breeze that knocked it or one of the dogs catching the guy wire. I felt terrible once I noticed. She would have to start completely over!
The spider probably wasn't sighing. She wasn't worried. She simply began the task of rebuilding. And in an hour or so she was done. With plenty of time to catch her dinner.
Unlike the spider, I can be very whiny about building things. I get frustrated with formatting on my computer. I get annoyed resizing photos and taking all the little steps to move things around on a screen. I especially dislike having to re-do things that I've already done once before.
But rebuilding is part of what we do. And creating fresh. We can be like the spider and just do it, rather than whining about how hard it is or how it doesn't look right. The spider doesn't care if all her threads are completely evenly spaced, as long as they do the job. They are close enough.
How freeing to focus on the building and the creation. How lovely to approach my work this way - don't you agree?