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Mary Drier
Mary Drier
Mary Drier
Mary Drier
Fireflies have always fascinated me with their little lightbulb in their tummy.
Although I was very young, I remember my grandmother’s reaction to watching them with me one night. The wrinkles in her face smoothed out with the biggest smile I had ever seen her do. She clapped her hands in delight as she watched the little light show they put on as they flitted about the yard.
I was surprised at her reaction to seeing them. She acted like it was the first time she had seen them. She was really old, so she must have watched them several times over the years, but it still gave her delight to watch them.
I remember thinking at the time that her reaction to watching them was a little odd, but figured she was just doing that because she was with me.
Gram watched me chase the little lightening bugs around the yard trying to catch one. It wasn’t easy to do because their light would be there for a second and gone the next with a light appearing several feet away.
She was delighted when I gave her one to hold in her cupped hands and it kept lighting up.
Information on Facebook posted by a friend of mine on fireflies dimmed the delight of that memory, and I will never look at them the same way again.
According to what my friend posted, a firefly’s flashes are part of a complex male-female seduction. The light show fireflies put on is actually a sophisticated mating ritual.
And there are some “femme fatale” fireflies that eat the male. Some poor fireflies are out there flying a fine line between sex and death.
I looked up the information she posted to see if it was accurate.
After reading the information, the fascination in watching fireflies dimmed for me for a while.
Then, I noticed my cat sitting in the window watching fireflies and I had to laugh as I watched him bob back and forth trying to follow their flight pattern.
Watching my cat’s animated fascination trying to follow a firefly’s flight reminded me of the nostalgic memory of the night my grandmother and I watched the little beetle’s light appear and then disappear.
As we sat there together on that warm summer night, Grams advised me there would be tough times ahead in my life, and to watch fireflies. At the time, I didn’t understand what she was trying to tell me.
The other night as I watched my cat watching fireflies, I finally understood what Grams told me. Fireflies are to remind us to keep the sense of childlike wonder in our lives along with dreams that nothing is outside the realm of possibility — like a bug lighting up the world with its butt.
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