Stella interior designer, Orphans, splendid watching and good news

Looking over the edge of the deck this morning after the wind and rain scattered cherry petals over the yard. Fairy land! 

Speaking of fairy land, Stella has been helping her mice keep their house tidy, she works for them. The rewards are massive! The entire mouse house is upstairs in Stella's room of tiny magic and  joy. 

 

While Stella is designing rooms for her mice I am minding the orphans,though they do not have their own house or their own rooms, They have the neighborhood. Remember I mentioned Steve's bird bath that has been  overtaken by creatures and the doll that ended up in a raccoons mouth? The orphans timed their fishing trip well as no body was there other than Mr. robot , He is docile enough, just stands around murmuring "xxxzzzzt, rrr".

One fish caught and released, the same fish that is caught every time.

This morning the gardener found a wee girl living in a walnut shell .

Weather still too cold and rainy to plant anything- I have been clearing our drawers- Five of them yesterday and a closet today. Polished the wooden furniture , fed the leather chairs, grocery shopped, which was a mistake because I had not yet had breakfast- everything purchased was eaten in the car on the way home. I am out of control.

Evening arrives and I start U- tubing lectures and the London guide, Joolz, whom I adore.  I think I have watched ALL of his guiding around the city as well as his trip to Pitcairn Island , where the mutineers left their captain and ship and lived on the tiny island until, I dunno, they perished from being piratey? It is a harrowing sort of frustrating trip and well worth the watch, Joolz is most entertaining. His tours through London are the best ever! Loads of information. he is way too talented and handsome and clever to be heterosexual pretty sure. If he is not gay, he really ought to be. He is a tasty dish.

I got involved watching a debate last night- the one titled, "Would we be better off without Religion".  (Hell yes, I say) 

Religion came into being around 40,000 years ago as that was the time of creative explosion, gifts were left for the dead, burials happened...and after 40,000 years of god inventions, humans became hardwired for religion, ritual,performance expression, transcendental satisfaction.  Atrocities  committed in the name of  whatever idea of god is trending became the crux, the power, and not the glory.... So, in the end, 59% of the audience backed the evidence based consideration that we would be better off without religion , 31 % - the other side,  the rest, undecided. Critics generally agree that religion is outdated, harmful to the individual, harmful to society, an impediment to the progress of science or humanity, a source of immoral acts or customs, a political tool for social control.  The debate, presented on Intelligence Squared, is definitely worthy.

As though that was not enough stimulation I watched Lawrence Krauss chatting with Richard Dawkins on the stage of the Opheum theater. Brilliant guys bouncing Neitzsche, Wittgenstien, JG Frazier ,etc- around like hot potatoes gone cold, gone mash.. Sleeping, after all of that ,was not an option. 

I cleaned out another drawer.  Not enough writing implements! Not enough safety pins!Just the right number of Dragon.

AND the best news of the day other than little Tucker Crazy Pants getting the boot is this:

Critics of religion in general may view religion as one or more of: outdated, harmful to the individual, harmful to soc, an impediment to the progress of science or humanity, a source of immoral acts or customs, a political tool for social control.

Critics of religion in general may view religion as one or more of: outdated, harmful to the indmful to society, an impediment to the progress of science or humanity, a source of immoral acts or customs, a political tool for social con