This past weekend, Nae was complaining because there was a crow (though I believe it is actually a Raven) at the bird feeder. Then, in today's Word of the Day, I see:

The Word of the Day for June 23, 2009 is:

corvine • \KOR-vyne\ • adjective

: of or relating to the crows : resembling a crow

Did you know?

Few people crow about "corvine" -- it's not often you'll come across the word -- but it has been part of the English language since the mid-17th century. Like most taxonomic terms, "corvine" has a purely Latin pedigree. "Corvine" is from Latin "corvinus," which in turn is from Latin "corvus," meaning "raven." (The word "raven" itself is from the Old English term "hræfn," which is akin to "hraban," the Old High German word for "raven," and also to "corvus.") Another word from "corvus" is "cormorant," which refers to a dark-colored seabird and comes from Old French words meaning "raven" and "of the sea."

And that led me to thinking about Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory), Odin's Ravens that traveled the world and came back to tell Odin what was going on. Odin said:

Every morning the two ravens Huginn and Muninn, are loosed and fly over Midgard; I always fear that Thought may not wing his way home, but my fear for Memory is greater.

One thing is chance, two things may be happenstance but Nae has been talking a lot about Synchronicity:

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.

The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead, it maintains that just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by their meaning. Since meaning is a complex mental construction, subject to conscious and subconscious influence, not every correlation in the grouping of events by meaning needs to have an explanation in terms of cause and effect.

And I have seen the smaller birds drive off the Corvid and still it comes back.

Something to think about.