A Nostalgic Caw
Dec. 25th, 2009 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenI just heard a crow cawing off in the distance. The caw echoed from across the treetops of the woods around my sister's house.
Such a crow's caw echoes around my grandmother's house, too. At grandmother's house strolling through the golden autumn leaves, I found whole walnuts still in their green casings on the ground. I remember the crows cawing while I bashed the casings against her chicken coop's back wall. I love the lemony, green smell of freshly bashed walnut casings.
Such a crow's caw echoes across fields around the house where I lived in high school. Many times I sat at my window listening to the countryside and watching the fields as the sun went down through the screen. The first time I saw a silver fox in the wild was through that screen, while she dashed along the edge of a neighbor's milo field and a crow cawed in the distance.
A crow's caw is bittersweet: In one breath the sound tells us we're alive, reminds of us days gone by, and foreshadows days to come. The sound, to me, is both happy and sad, and makes me yearn for younger days.
I'm glad I heard that caw today.
Such a crow's caw echoes around my grandmother's house, too. At grandmother's house strolling through the golden autumn leaves, I found whole walnuts still in their green casings on the ground. I remember the crows cawing while I bashed the casings against her chicken coop's back wall. I love the lemony, green smell of freshly bashed walnut casings.
Such a crow's caw echoes across fields around the house where I lived in high school. Many times I sat at my window listening to the countryside and watching the fields as the sun went down through the screen. The first time I saw a silver fox in the wild was through that screen, while she dashed along the edge of a neighbor's milo field and a crow cawed in the distance.
A crow's caw is bittersweet: In one breath the sound tells us we're alive, reminds of us days gone by, and foreshadows days to come. The sound, to me, is both happy and sad, and makes me yearn for younger days.
I'm glad I heard that caw today.
