Old Crow & Magpie: Preface

People and cultures place birds and animals in certain esteem.  Generally, this regard is based on perceived mytho-poetic qualities in the animal and the psychic projections of the culture.  Shamanic traditions give totem animals para-human abilities.  For example, birds may be able to see in to the future or past to be a warning or reminder.

For my purposes, old crow and the magpie will not imbue shamanic characteristics, or even positive attributes.  On the contrary, rife with my psychic projections, old crow and magpie will assume human characteristics, but only pejorative ones.

Perhaps, dear solitary reader, you are ahead of me.  Over the past three years I have shared the stories I intend to chronicle here in oral tradition.  As I was fuming after my last encounter with old crow, I thought how perfect it would be to share these twilight-zone experiences with you.  

In an attempt for some transparency, let me say this… Both old crow and magpie push mother buttons in me that even my mother doesn’t push.  I realize they are just living their life as they know how.  And occasionally, I even feel sorry for them - however fleeting.  Mostly… they just piss me off.  If I wasn’t so close to the situation, I would think it was hilarious, and then I would praise Fortuna herself that I didn’t have to deal with them.