weather: 🌦️ drip drip drop little april shower critters: ducks "all creatures of our god and king" is one of my favorite christian hymns, but many's the time i've heard it and thought about the weirder, grosser critters that god cooked up in his extradimensional angel lab. (we are weird and gross by ape standards--elongated, hairless, slimegreased baby-people.) then i thought about st. francis, the credited author of the hymn, having to steel himself to acknowledge their inherent motes of divinity. i will not be embedding any pictures here because some of these give me a few heebie-jeebies. links go to wikipedia articles. star-nosed mole. let's just get a classic out of the way first because it looks like the graphically realistic aftermath of a cartoon bomb going off in something's face. i do like that it's been the subject of so many scientific studies--zoologists will see a weird creature and immediately want to know how it serves the creature to be so weird. i think st. francis…
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