Mouse Tea
I found something else in my tea cup this afternoon. It wasn't a heart this time. It was a mouse. See it? I guess possible alternatives could be hamster or gerbil but I took the swirly bit at the bottom to be a tail. I have deemed this to be my magic tea cup now. In addition to the hearts, which you've seen, I have also seen roses and what I thought was a face in profile. I didn't get picture of those but I had my phone handy when this little mouse appeared today.
Just for fun I looked up "mouse" among the folklore guides. According to the tea leaf reading folks (and their lore), a mouse means danger of poverty, theft or swindling, the need to set a trap, or domestic worries. It isn't hard to see that these interpretations are based on the prejudices that humans associate with mice being vermin, so linear thinkers would see it as a warning or bad omen. I don't get that feeling looking at this mouse.
If mice have a talent or "good trait" it is that they can and do adapt to almost any environment. Mice can survive just about anything. They can make a home out of just about anything. They can find avenues to food and shelter that other mammals will not. Few mammals are as frugal, resourceful, or industrious as mice. In this regard they are much more successful at life on Earth than humans are. Yes, they can spread disease but so do we. Yes, they are destructive but so are we. Yes, they multiply exponentially but so do we.
When I look at this little mouse I feel...well...
...amused and a little excited. When I super-enlarge the upper picture the little mouse seems to be smiling at me with a cartoony little face, as if he snuck in to see if I would notice. I get a White Rabbit from the Alice in Wonderland stories feeling from it. Maybe he's a messenger or just a test to see if I would shun the image so he knows whether or not to bother coming back? Maybe he's a she? Maybe it's just my imagination? I'm willing to consider all possibilities, I suppose, or maybe none of them, but this tea cup is certainly the most animated vessel I've known.
Stay tuned; no telling what might turn up next!
(c) 2012, ACG
Just for fun I looked up "mouse" among the folklore guides. According to the tea leaf reading folks (and their lore), a mouse means danger of poverty, theft or swindling, the need to set a trap, or domestic worries. It isn't hard to see that these interpretations are based on the prejudices that humans associate with mice being vermin, so linear thinkers would see it as a warning or bad omen. I don't get that feeling looking at this mouse.
If mice have a talent or "good trait" it is that they can and do adapt to almost any environment. Mice can survive just about anything. They can make a home out of just about anything. They can find avenues to food and shelter that other mammals will not. Few mammals are as frugal, resourceful, or industrious as mice. In this regard they are much more successful at life on Earth than humans are. Yes, they can spread disease but so do we. Yes, they are destructive but so are we. Yes, they multiply exponentially but so do we.
When I look at this little mouse I feel...well...
...amused and a little excited. When I super-enlarge the upper picture the little mouse seems to be smiling at me with a cartoony little face, as if he snuck in to see if I would notice. I get a White Rabbit from the Alice in Wonderland stories feeling from it. Maybe he's a messenger or just a test to see if I would shun the image so he knows whether or not to bother coming back? Maybe he's a she? Maybe it's just my imagination? I'm willing to consider all possibilities, I suppose, or maybe none of them, but this tea cup is certainly the most animated vessel I've known.
Stay tuned; no telling what might turn up next!
(c) 2012, ACG
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