24th April 2011 Cockroaches

This brought back some memories for me of an amazing lady called Alice Gray (1914-1994) who was an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She kept pet cockroaches in her office there including some rather large Madagascar hissing cockroaches. I spent 4 1/2 months with her, learning about insects and origami. One very important lesson I learnt from her generosity was that to accept a gift is to allow the person the joy of giving, and to refuse is to deny them that.