Last night, I went into the garage, turned on the light, and saw this on the wall

Eventually I found it: “Gasteracantha, the spiny orb-weaver.” Not an alien creature, but a spiny orb-weaver spider known for its unusual shell and web-building behavior.

Seeing it online, I realized: “Not an alien, not venomous doom…” but a harmless, strange architect of nature. The fear drained away and turned into awe at how something so unusual could exist unnoticed in my own space.