Caw, caw, caw!

"Cawing Crow:" A 2011 Summer Blog

Photo by Alan Wilfahrt

My theme is inspired by Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre's May Day 2011, "Caws to Unite." The cawing crow can symbolize:

• People banding together around the world, calling "UNITE!"
• Looking backward as you move forward: gather the best of what our past has to teach us
• The wretched crow with broken wings, trying to protect its nest
• The scarecrows who scare us away from taking back our place at the table

The crow seems the perfect figure for subsistence in a cold and unforgiving land, banding in righteous protest but also wretched, and even cold to outsiders when the band can't feed itself. This summer, I'm a cawing crow.

Cawing crow background from a photograph by wolfnipplechips of Deviant Art. (Thanks!)