We give our names to things. This creek is Cobweb Creek, named for our cat, who is named for one of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peaseblossom and Mustardseed were too long And Moth too short).

We called a house Carapace, and another one Too Far: too far from where? Crablike we built the names around us, giving to Cobweb Creek an echo of Mustardseed, giving the closest places a distance of our own.