Coming into the house the other day, I looked up and happened to notice a hatch of mayflies. Lucky I didn't miss them. Same thing happened last night when getting out of the car. They are quite graceful and beautiful; up and down, up and down in their flight. I'm lucky to see them once or twice in a year. They come from the order Ephemeroptera, and ephemeral they are, indeed. Many phenomena emerge for only a short time, here on the other side of the creek, but the mayflies are here only very briefly. One adult female species lives for less than five minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly
The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.
Henry Miller
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