Not really a Thanksgiving quote

[janradder]

So I have this irrational fear/superstition about crows.

I've always felt like they are somehow ominous portents of doom and I've always chased them from our yard and trees when I see them because of this. The one time I decided to get over this and just leave the damn things alone was a couple weeks ago. The result? My dad wound up in the hospital with an irregular heartbeat at the beginning of the week and I ended it by having PTSD flashbacks of being bullied in school (real stomach-churning, tremor-inducing flashbacks). Okay, so maybe it wasn't the crows that caused it, but the fact that those things happened has done nothing to assuage my feelings about them.

Now today I went over to our friends' house to take care of their cats. In the trees, on the yards, and overhead were about thirty crows -- cawing, circling, hopping, and generally looking like that last scene in The Birds where they walk out to the car. Not good. But when I came back outside, there was something far worse. All the crows were gone, save one: a dead crow, its neck twisted unnaturally to the side, laying right next to the front steps of my friends' house. Now what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

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Re: don't be afraid young Skywalker

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Ah, Ben, you always have the positive spin on things. I read the first of the Castaneda books (The Teachings of Don Juan?) but none of the others, though I remember you talking about them a lot. Yes, it would be nice to be a sorcerer -- it would certainly make getting things done a lot easier. I'll try to look at the crows in a different light, but I still think I'm going to chase them away when I can. The thing about superstitions is that there's no good reason for them and there's really no logic to argue them away. Ah well.