By Pierre Ratte
What’s a “Yet”? A “Yeti”? No, a “Yet.”
Apparently, it’s a creature with three heads. So, lots of intelligence. It has four feelers making it ultra-sensitive to its environment. A Yet can be “there for you,” or anybody waiting on something that hasn’t arrived—yet. Yets sense but don’t know the future. Their intelligence and supersensitive feelers allow them to know anticipated events eventually arrive, situations eventually work out. This is why Yets have huge smiles and cheery faces.
Yets are the imaginary invention of a creative young boy encouraging his mother when the season of waiting weighs heavy. One doesn’t know the outcome, but in having a Yet as a friend one finds comfort in understanding that waiting is part of the joy of now, and trusting in tomorrow is a gift of grace—that of not knowing the future. Domestic and world events suggest more Yets, please.
Fun facts: The word “yet” has a few meanings. As an adverb it references “a continuing state or condition.” As a conjunction, it introduces a contrasting fact or thought. As a modifier, it intensifies meaning, as in “yet again.”
A yeti is a cryptid; a creature thought to exist but not scientifically proven. Sasquatch, a.k.a. Bigfoot, is also a cryptid, said but not proven to live in the Pacific Northwest. Chuchunas, similar to Sasquatch, are said to be hairy large bipeds thought to live in Siberia.
Underwater cryptids include the Loch Ness Monster, a.k.a, Nessie, of Scottish lore and the kraken, a giant tentacled beast of Scandinavian mythology famously portrayed in Pirates of the Caribbean as Davey Jones’ avenging undersea pet. The five-movie Pirates of the Caribbean franchise grossed over $4.5 billion and is the 16th-largest-grossing film series.
While not rising to the level of cryptid, the shark in Jaws rose to terrorize audiences 50 years ago this week, shattering box office records. Produced for $12 million in 1975, three times over budget and costing four times more than average films, Jaws grossed $470 million worldwide, estimated at $2.3 billion in today’s dollars.
Steven Spielberg was 27 years old when he directed the film. The movie won three Academy Awards for: Best Editing, Dramatic Score and Sound. The mechanical shark broke so regularly that deft editing limiting the shark’s appearances, together with the dramatic score, combined to heighten the fear factor that has thrilled and terrified audiences for 50 years.
