From Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk, Expeditions & Encounters:
INSECTS
I like insects for their stupidity. A paper wasp - Polistes - is fumbling at the stained glass window on my right. I saw the same sight in the same spot last Sunday: Pssst! Idiot! Sweetheart! Go around by the door! I hope we seem as endearingly stupid to God - bumbling down into lamps, running half-wit across the floor, banging for days at the hinge of an opened door. I hope so........What are the chances that God finds our failed impersonations of human dignity adorable? Or is he fooled? What odds do you give me?
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