Wiggling?

 Taoism teaches you to wiggle all the way through...not only from foot to head, but  from one end of space to the other. To learn to be with the wiggle is the Tao.

Alan Watts

What is the wiggle?

It is mutuality...where there is an accord to move together like dancers who are wonderfully  partnered so you don't know which one is leading and which one is following...and that is how you act in concord with your environment...you arise together ...not necessarily in time...

In other words, we are One with the ever changing nature of phenomena, of our passage through Life. We need to dance with it instead of try to control it. 

Nothing could look more different than a bee and a flower but they are one single orgnism...tied together by things that are not so visible to us but visible to the bee. They arise mutually....come into being together.

You, as an individual, arise mutually with the rest of the universe... 

We wiggle when we flow with nature, allowing it to be as it is, becoming its partner not its boss. 

I try to wiggle my way through Life.  I have literally been wiggling alot lately. Moving here and moving there like a straw floating on the surface of an ever flowing stream that is sometimes smooth, many times choppy but always moving. 

I am wiggling even more now wondering what to do next. This human is presently experiencing a challenge in  this present living situation.  I am observing  nature doing what nature does but a little too close to home,  in a way that any partnership with it creates a survival risk for  this body I call mine.

Dancing with the Paper Wasps

Paper wsaps are interesting facets of nature. They do a lot of good in the spring, keeping the numbers of certain insects in check. (They are carniverous). And unlike other wasps they are not overly aggressive and are very cooperative. Though a colony will stick with their queen from the beginning, staying in the same nest she built all season...they will allow other paper wasps to set up colonies near by creating a whole city of different nests. There appears to be hundreds, and I mean literally, hundredsof paper wasps colonizing under the shingles of this roof and inside its many age induced cracks and crevices. They are constantly circling around the house from all angles going in and out many different holes. They gather in this little porch in the dozens.  They group together in great numbers in between the panes of these little windows to the point it is difficult to see outside. And they get inside. Despite the  closing of the windows and D's constant attempts at gathering and removing live bodies to the outside, there is always a few flying around in here. I woke up with one on me this morning.

So, crazy lady?

This human body is allergic to wasp stings.  I don't have an epi-pen.  (Not having an epipen is totally on me...very irresponsible... being that  I am 30 minutes away from the hospital. I need to rectify that...okay  this part doesn't fit into the story I am trying to tell lol). Not having emergency protection is my doing.  The wasp infestation, however, is nature's doing. Nature is just doing what it does.  The wasps are just doing wat they do and my immune system will do what has become natural for it- over react. Sigh!

Though these  paper wasps are not naturally aggressive...they will sting if aggravated or when other beings get  near their nests. The problem is we do not know where those nests are.  Because of the number of these wasps...and I am saying hundreds floating around this little house at a given time...there must be several nests in the roof and in other places we cannot see or get to...therefore we cannot do something about each nest. 

I don't like to kill anything. I especially do not want to kill any pollinators. (I fear the numbers of pollinating insects...despite what is around my house ...are dropping...Maybe the last of the world's paper wasps are congregating here. lol). I definitely do not want to call in an exterminator or to use pesticides that would also harm the few bees I see in the yard, the hummers, and the birds I am feeding.  No, I cannot do that, not only because I sincerely wish no harm on anything, but because I truly see the interbeingness of everything. I KNOW we are all so deeply, deeply connected in ways we cannot see or understand with our limited minds. Harming anything, then, doesn't make any sense.

So, I do not know what to do. Do I just let nature be of itself?

Yes, I need to get an epi-pen! Then what?  

This is only spring. Right now wasps are just looking to build their nests, populate and eat meat.  They are going about their business looking for insect larvae etc. Come summer, however, they are going to have a wicked sweet tooth and even the paper wasps will be a little testy. How am I going to go about my business then?  I have ordered all my gardening suff with the intention of adding a bit of natural beauty to the front of the house. Even if I have an epi-pen, its protection ability is limited. After each subsequent sting, the reaction gets worse. To run into a nest...well that could be the end of me in this body. 

So, as I float down this stream, wiggling and dancing with the paper wasps I ask the question, "Do I need to leave this place?  Is this nature's way of saying, "I want this dance to be over because you keep stepping on my toes crazy lady!Go elsewhere. It's time for you to leave. This is not your home?"

I mean regardless if I stay or leave does  something have to be done about the wasps?  The numbers are so great it is dangerous for any human. Even D. could be severely harmed if they all decide to go after him at once for constantly tapping on the roof to see where they are...as he does to no avail. They come out of so many places.  And he needs to replace the roof which could prove lethal if there are many, many nests under the shingles like I assume there is. Like I am not exaggerating...the numbers are ridiculous. 

So, when I can get through the porch to go outside, I find myself just standing there looking out at one of nature's many perfect creations flying around the house, asking, "WT Frontdoor are we going to do about this?" and more importantly, "Which way is Life asking me to wiggle now?"

I know that just because I am human my life is no more valuable than the wasp's because my life is the wasp's. It is so strange knowing this.

Deepen your consciousness...go down to the roots where it ceases to be you.

All is well. 

Alan Watts/Official Alan Watts Org. ( May, 2026) Alan Watts-Being in the Way 2: On Taoism, Energy, and the Illusion of Separateness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3G7GC3HnU