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Saturday May 21, 2011

What would the skies be like without Crow? How would the morning silence break without Crow? Would perception shift accordingly without Crow?

Immediately I take on a random direction, I never did like Scarecrows. They were lifeless, senseless farm land oddities when I was growing up in the Midwest. Hanging lifeless like Christ on a cross in more ways than one, attempting to cast away the truth of the natural world. Ah, I see a parallel without looking and once again it is connected here to Crow Law, Sacred Law, TRUTH. Truth … I like Crow’s and all that sacred law stuff. I was always happy when the scarecrows didn’t work. I like Christ and all his sacred law stuff too.

The night was filled with rain and I was having incredible dreams when Crow woke me up this morning. Didn’t crow know it was a weekend morning and I actually had the day off? Didn’t Crow know that I could sleep in late? What was Crow doing waking me, it was raining, didn’t Crow want to find shelter from the storm and let me sleep a bit more? Apparently not, because Crow was making sounds louder than the rain to let me know it was time to toss out the peanuts in the backyard.

Crow wakes me on any day and every day that I sleep in past breakfast time, Crow breakfast time that is, not my breakfast time. It is all my doing as I have feed Crow and all of his family, Momma’s, Daddy’s, brothers, sisters, young ones for many years now. I have fed his cousins too … the Blue Jay, Purple Finch, Zebra Finch, Robin Red Breast, Mocking Bird, Sparrow, Chickadee (I call them the grim reaper birds, I love their black hoodies), Pigeons, Doves and more. I have made peace with the Pigeons. They are not the smartest bird on the planet and it is not my job to educate them. I still don’t see the reason for 11 of them trying to fit into one bird feeder. I guess that if they do, what am I to do about it?

So Crow woke me, perched on the roof line at the front of the house. I found that amazing as I had slept in the front room that night and not my bedroom at the back of the house. Crow usually wakes me from my bedroom. I was cognitive enough to realize that Crow found me in another room, in another part of my home, to wake me up to feed him. I was amazed at Crow’s intellect and ability.

I got up from the bed in the front room and walked through the house. I walked down the hall into my bedroom where I keep all of the bird seed, bird feed and assorted nuts and dried fruits for the birds. I was surprised that I had on my Uggs. I didn’t remember having my Uggs out of the closet. This was the first clue that I got from my very life like dream. I did not wear my Uggs the night before.

I am stocked like a mini feed store. I am especially stocked this time of year for the Quail too. I love the Quail. I opened my back bedroom doors and started to head to the yard and there was Crow, right at my feet to the left of me. He was bouncing and cawing loudly. As I walked further into the yard I noticed that two more Crows were to my right and they were telepathically letting me know that they like peanuts very much.

This was the second clue that I got from my very life like dream. I could hear the rain in my sleeping mind but there was no rain in my yard. The sky was clear, there was no rain and the sunlight was brighter than the actual time of morning. The sky was actually to light, it was glowing and everything was shiny.

I did a few more reality checks and realized that the blinds had been closed in the front room, but I could see Crow on the roof. In my reality check I wondered how I could see Crow on a roof with the blinds closed on the windows.

Right about the time that Crow knew that I knew I was dreaming, he started talking to me. He thanked me for always feeding him and his family. The two Crows to my right went into the yard to eat the peanuts that I had tossed out for them. As the Crows went into the yard other birds started flying in to the yard to eat.

A string of assorted birds of every color came into a line up to eat. The first bird was a bright golden yellow and red peacock. The second bird was a turquoise and magenta pheasant. The pheasant was followed by a couple of Robin Red Breast’s but these Robins had purple and burgundy breasts. A row of Hummingbirds entered the line up and they were taking dew drops of rain off of the lawn like they were nectar from flowers. The Hummingbirds were the usual colors of Hummingbirds but they were lit up like neon signs.

I looked at the Crow to the left of me, in amazement and Crow said to me “It’s your dream.” More birds entered the line up on the lawn and eventually the yard was filled with amazing birds of every color but their natural colors. The golden yellow and red peacock was the most amazing as he strutted around the yard with his tail fully fanned. He was so proud of his feathers.

It started raining and I told the Crow that I was going to go inside now. The Crow told me to have a great morning and he thanked me again for feeding him. I asked him how he knew I was sleeping in the front room and not my bedroom and he said that he looked through the windows to see I was not in my room. I realized that that made sense and I closed the door to enter my room.

I made my way up the hall, through the house and into the front room where I had been sleeping. I could see the bed where I had been. I noted that the blinds were closed and that I would not have been able to see Crow on the roof. I sat down on the side of the bed and slumped over very heavily. I noticed that I didn’t have my Uggs on. I heard the sound of Crow calling to wake me up.

I sat up and woke up. I opened the blinds to the large front window and there was Crow sitting on the corner of the roof line peering into the room that I was sleeping in. He woke me up to let me know that it was breakfast time.

This trip down the hall was done while wide awake, wide awake and in awe of Crows intellect and ability. This trip down the hall, I was barefooted. I was happy to be so trusted by Crow. I was stunned by the dream that I had awakened from, just a few moments prior. In the dream I was wearing the same pajamas. Would I go to the back yard to find peanuts on the lawn, a Crow to my left and two Crow’s to my right? Would I see a golden yellow and red peacock swaggering around my yard?

I opened my back doors to walk into my yard and toss out a cup of peanuts and Crow landed just to the left of me, he had walked across the roof while I walked through my home. Two other Crows landed in the yard to eat. I looked at Crow beside me to the left and I asked him if he had seen me twice already, once in my dream and again while wide away. Crow said to me “you are always wide awake”.

I need to shop for peanuts tomorrow.