last night, while we were hanging outside on our porch we noticed a collarless dog go running down the road - fearing for it, we all got our shoes on and followed it.
we spent about an hour and a half trying to get it to let us touch it. a sniff of our hands before running off was as close as it'd get. we followed it as it was walking the streets, trying to make sure any cars that came by slowed, since it wouldn't come to our calls.
eventually we gave up and decided that it didn't want to be caught, and it didn't want to be touched, so, after giving it some treats over the hour or so we were out there we decided to turn home. but it decided to follow us.
when we reached our yard she wouldn't come in. she noticed it as an enclosed space and wouldn't come in. so, we left some food for her on the steps and let her be.
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so, the 4 crows i used to talk to don't come back anymore ever since that tree got cut down. i have 2 (maybe 3) that visit me now, but they're a different group.
the group of 4 talked to me. not the usual "caw caw" we hear from crows, but a quiet voice with a bowed head - a sort of 'awa-awa' sound with a click noise.
for the first time one of the new group talked to me. it does the same bowed-head motion but it makes a much different sound. much more of a click-honk.
honestly its in no way limited to schooling. its just frustrating listening to people take the subjectivity of apparatuses of control as their own.
what i mean is - learning plant identification is obviously useful. but i want to develop a set of reproducible practices which can be passed down, separate from any knowledge of a plant, to safely learn what the plant would be useful for.
look at how they spit in the face of values of freedom and cooperation in the name of democracy. and then to claim the locals' 'violent response' is a sign of dark hours ahead.
on the contrary - dark hours were brought on by the violent colonial project of indigenous genocide.
"France has declared a state of emergency in its Pacific island territory of New Caledonia and deployed police and military reinforcements in an attempt to end days of unrest over Paris’s move to change the rules governing provincial elections.
"Three Indigenous Kanak people and a police officer have been killed in violence that erupted on Monday night and has continued despite an overnight curfew. Hundreds have been injured."
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.