Hi Tweets,

Fred Bird writes:

>The last paragraph reads in part: "tribal police and the FBI said they has
>discovered the body of Artei Cruz, 22, a Mexican national who had been
>living on the reservation. He was last seen Dec. 23, and reported missing
>>Jan. 2."
>
>>Coincidental or what?

Far from being a 'noonee-noonee' Twilight Zone coincidence, this whole thing
would make a perfect everday happenstance kind of sense if he were the owner
and keeper of the caracara. Isn't it the national bird of Mexico? What if he
kept it as some keep other raptor species: to identify with alleged totemic
qualities: power, strength, clarity of vision, etc.?

Considering his sad end, the lesson might be that totemic identification, at
least for those qualities, might be a bit of a dry well.

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)