Tag: crow

In Berlin, time nests in between the cobbles of the narrow streets, soaked in a deep slumber of sleep, dust its blanket, passerby bicycles its dreams. You’re so aware of your existence in gray, quiet Berlin. The vast, cunning sky sheltering the city, moments before the raindrops fall, resemble...

Most of the time, I’m a stodgy stick in the mud, highly addicted to my tried and true routines. I jump on the laptop first thing in the morning. Though If I actually did jump, that would be a lot better for me. I’m too sedentary for my own good. And as I wrote here recently,...

Japan’s got crows. And ravens (we use the same word for both: “karasu”). Lots of ’em. They’re BIG. Much bigger than the ones I’m used to in Toronto. And smart, and sometimes mean. As we shall see, they’ve played a prominent and vexing role in the daily li...

This post begins the cultural mythology of ancient Celtic peoples who had relationships with many spirits, often worshipped. The Roman occupations of those lands brought a different reality, in which the Druids were persecuted, who were often the priesthood who served the Tribes. Celtic peoples were...

New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of the twenty-first century. This observation links America’s segregated past to its nominally desegregated present: an...