Look at this tiny, handsome obsidian raven I got from Body Mind and Soul after their buying trip to Denver. They picked up SO MUCH great stuff. If you live in or near Houston, this is one of the best-of-the-best locally-owned businesses to shop. The moment you walk inside, your energy lifts, and the end of any transaction leaves you renewed for going back to the outside world.
I named him Paulus and posed him in front of this colorful postcard from Marika to honor Maleficent’s raven confidant popularly known as Diablo in the 1959 animated movie and named Diaval in the 2014 film. The love and respect I feel for crows, ravens, and other corvids (there are 133 species in the Corvidae family!) are bonds I share with several friends. They’re smart and complex birds.
One of my characters thinks of himself as a “lone crow,” and I’ve planned a future house for a different character that will use one of the corvids in its name.
It’s fun to tuck little homages to these creatures inside what I write.
Nevermore! And yes, I know that’s a raven.
I need to shop there when I visit.
I’ll go with you!
You’ll be taking me there!
It would be my pleasure.