By Hal Walter
Raven is a bird that is associated with magic and healing, balance between light and dark, creation and wisdom: trickster. My neighbor, who is a golfer and practices his driving on the hillside behind his house, tells me ravens routinely carry away golf balls, thinking they are eggs, before he can retrieve them.
I imagine the raven swooping up to some rocky outcrop with the strangely spherical and dimpled “egg” in its beak, perplexed by the resilience and actual bounce when cracked against the granite.
Recently during an intense period of animal care-taking I had found some frozen eggs in one of my clients’ chicken house. They had expanded and cracked before I found them. So I tossed them out near a big boulder behind the barn knowing that some wild animal would likely appreciate the free meal.