I was listening to an interview with Renee King-Sonnen, founder of the Rowdy Girls Sanctuary.
Something came up.
She was asked, 'Do you think Lucy is a visionary?'
Lucy is a chicken.
Renee laughed and said what a beautiful question and then proceeded to explain why, yes, Lucy is a visionary. Lucy was the companion of a mentally ill woman. She slept in the woman's bed and comforted her. When the woman was deemed too unwell to look after herself, a home was needed for Lucy. Renee said that Lucy helped her understand more about what chickens want and need and are capable of. There was something about Lucy's eyes, her individual personality, as well as her story.
This struck me, of course, thinking about CD, as he opens a gate to both crow-world and, specifically, CD-world and allows me to look in.
He has chosen how to interact with me. I mean, all the crows could do as he does. They don't and still get their peanuts. He doesn't need to. He chooses to follow me, walk around near me. He is investigating me as much as I him. And as crows recognise individuals, he is knowing 'me' not 'a representative human' just as I have to know that I am knowing CD, not a representative crow. Nonetheless, he learns how humans move and how to read our body language better and surely other general things.
And I recall my cat Solomon and pony Syringa with whom I had a similar sense of individual mutual knowing. Buji is like that. My rat Ratty.
That willingness to reach out. That willingness to allow oneself to be reached out to.
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