Tag: Racoon
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Racoon in the Rafters part 2 Racoon totem
Raccoon as Totem: Masked Messenger in a Time of RevelationPart 2 of “The Raccoon in the Rafters” Four years ago, I made a pact with a raccoon. Not out of folklore, not in a vision or dream, but in the middle of a real-life renovation disaster and a chicken coop standoff. And while she hasn’t…
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“The Raccoon in the Rafters” part 1
The Crone, the Coop, and the Masked MatriarchPart 1 of “The Raccoon in the Rafters” When we bought our 1908 Victorian home for fifteen grand, folks looked at us like we were either brave or completely off our rocker. And maybe we were both. She’d been long abandoned—not just neglected, but truly abandoned. By people,…