#piecework

[rthwrms]

oh yeh we're drawing on fabric again lol

[rathologic]

the extent to which it was piecework.

[stitching-twice]

Card trick square pattern with calculations

[professorpski]

Piecework Fall 2023, Or What Have They Done to the Capelet? 

This issue has several projects all of which you see here. These include a knitted colorwork hat inspired by a stained glass window designed by Hazel Tindall, a Cherry blossom embroidery done in stumpwork by Jane Nicholas, and a bag in blackwork by Melinda Shebring. And then we have the knitted capelet on the cover by Shirley Paden with an ornate lace and beads design.

Once upon a time, the evening capelet was a small cape. Like a cape, it opened in the front, often tied at the throat and might have a collar or ruff at the neckline. Its charm lay in its grace, the way it could be untied and swept off the shoulders as our heroine came in from the chill and onto the dance floor. It could be made of fabric or fur, or knitted or crocheted.  

Then, somebody came up with the silly idea of the knitted capelet as a tube on pulled over the head. Why? Possibly because it was easier to knit certain ornate stitch patterns circularly rather than back and forth. But whatever is gained in the knitting is lost in the wearing. To take off a tube capelet means raising your arms as you would to take off a t-shirt, hardly the most graceful of movements. It also means pulling an ornate, possibly fuzzy knitwear over your elaborate earrings, your delicate up-do, and perhaps your hat if you are really dressed up. Imagine for a moment what happens if an earring catches a strand of yarn as you pull this capelet over your head. Yikes! Doffing a tube capelet it at best awkward and risks chaos. In short, a silly design. Although here the lace pattern is so interesting that it is worth taking and using on something else.

In addition to these projects, there are several historical articles on Portuguese embroidery, on metallic yarns and fabrics, on Louisa May Alcott, and more.

You can find at you local yarn store, bookstore or online here: https://pieceworkmagazine.com/

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

Can I be *making* any more box bags?

Yes, yes I can. Recently I was playing around with quilt-as-you-go patchwork and ended up with a 22" x 14" piece of fabric made from scraps. I used that for the outside of a boxed bag, which is now hanging in the kitchen & holding used-and-washed-for-reuse Ziplocs. I didn't want to use The Good Fabric™ for the lining, and instead went with a 1/2-yard cut that came with a fabric bundle I bought several months ago. Allegedly the print is "pink daisies" but Mr P & I agree that they look more like nipples than flowers. I used some of the scraps from that to make the zipper pulls and handle.

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"MANY STRIKES THREATENED ON COAST," The Province (Vancouver). May 1, 1934. Page 3. --- Four Thousand Columbia River Fishermen Quit as Season Opens. ---- ASTORIA. May 1. - (AP) - A strike of Columbia River fishermen was proclaimed by union officials at midnight on the eve of the 1934 salmon fishing season's opening today.

Officials of the Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union, who claim to represent the majority of 4000 Columbia River fishermen, were busy arranging a fleet of patrol boats to proceed up the river to spread news of the strike and enlist support.

Price differences between fishermen and packers apparently were on the verge of settlement at a conference late on Monday, when a snag was hit. Fishermen held out for abolition of piece work for cannery employees.

Previously fishermen lowered demands to meet the packers 'offer of 10 cents a pound for fish the first part of the season. A compromise of a five-cent minimum price from August 11 to August 25 was being considered when the question of piece work for cannery workers was raised.

Packers refused to consider abolition of the piece work, but proposed to submit the cannery works troubles to an arbitration board, to be appointed by NRA authorities. The meeting hit an impasse.

WATERFRONT WORKERS. SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. - (AP) - San Francisco waterfront employers moved today to meet a scheduled "showdown" on Monday on the long disputed question of stevedores' hours and wages.

The question now, said M. J. Wright, Pacific Coast manager of the Luckenbach Steamship Company, has been referred by the original mediation board of four to a new board of ten, five representatives each from employers and employees.

Unless the board brings forth an acceptable proposal by Monday, the stevedores agreed last night, a strike may be called.

TRAM STRIKE THREAT. OAKLAND, Cal., May 1. - (AP) - Demands for increased pay and shorter hours for street car. men, motor coach operators and electric trainmen in East Bay cities were announced by the Car Men's Union here Monday night.

Union officials said the demands were made on behalf of 1000 employees of the Key System Ltd., the East Bay Street Railways Ltd., and. the East Bay Motor Coach Lines Ltd., affiliated concerns. William C. St. Sure, vice-president of the concerns, said the demands will be considered at a meeting of executives tomorrow.

[fruitsclipper]

well. i guess this was too small of a scrap

[fungusqueen]

Finished the puzzle! I really enjoyed all the different textures in this. It was really challenging because some of the textures/prints repeated in several areas, BUT it was nice that some of the nonrepetitive textures were around the edges (grass, popcorn, corn, watermelon, and woven basket). 10/10 puzzle!

[romanyeva]

#ComicsBrokeMe has been gaining steam on Twitter over the past two days, but I haven't seen a whisper of it on my dash here. The Bleeding Cool article summarizes some of the major threads.

Neil Gaiman amplified the hashtag yesterday, as did Frank Miller of all people.

To summarize: the industry is terrible. It's always been terrible, and it's getting worse. Page rates are less than they were ten years ago; deadlines are getting shorter. And it's not just the Big Two (Marvel has always been a meat grinder, but DC is almost as bad), but the majority of the indie publishers too. Digital publishers aren't exempt from this either.

If you can stomach going over to the blue check nonsense site, I would recommend scrolling through the hashtag.

[proteusolm]

It's wierd planning things with young adults that are more financially well off than myself. I'm scandalized by a camping trip shopping list because they want specifically the brandname applesauce for children that costs 3x applesauce in cups because it comes in a fancy squeezable pouch. And jerky on the group shopping list instead of as an individual purchase. Jerky!? The stuff is like $15 for 6 little strips. That's the rich man's road trip snack.

I'm so old.

[rthwrms]

did u know this past monday was the full worm moon? well now u just might!!!

not really sure if i'm done with this guy yet, but i figured id post anyway!!

[non-threatening-feminist-boy]

I think the best part about showing my friend Pathologic 2 by letting them play the first day, was the part where you go to patch Piecework back together. They were kinda confused with how to do the operation, so I wanted to help by pointing out that you need to remove the "stuff (meaning the lockpick, but i had forgotten the word) he doesn't need anymore" from his body, like Grief said.

Well. They removed the "stuff". As in the lockpick.

And then, before I could say anything, also his liver and brain (which, to be fair, he then didn't need anymore, as correctly pointed out by Artemy). Oh well, happens to the best surgeons, lmao.

(After we we finished laughing we reloaded the last save, so Piecework didn't have to live up to his name more than he already has)

[iviarellereads]

The Murderbot Diaries - Obsolescence

(Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For the link index and a primer on The Murderbot Diaries, read this one! Like what you see? Send me a Ko-Fi.)

In which we get our first new POV!

Jixy(1) hears yelling and crying, and heads for it vowing that this time, the kids are going too far. Only, when she gets there, Arnie smacks into her, and she realizes he's one of the ones crying. She hugs him, looking at the others, but before she can determine what's happened, the incident alarm jolts her. The kids know better than to hit it for anything minor.

She asks what happened. Lilly says Greggy is hurt, badly. Jixy's heart sinks, and she checks the comm to make sure Lilly also hit the code for medical emergency, before asking where he is. Lilly points at some storage compartments, and Jixy goes, telling the kids to stay where they are.

Inside the first storage compartment floats Greggy, in globs of floating blood and augment fluid. He's been damaged, several of his metal prosthetics torn to bits, and his metal skull torn into. Jixy first assumes some old bot part exploded, but that shouldn't be possible, and there's no blast or debris except Greggy himself.

Jixy gets Dubarre, the local fixer,(2) to look over the bay in search of the accident's source, while she and the medic, Shen Jean, take care of Greggy. She's never had to clean a friend's body like garbage before, and she keeps shaking. Shen Jean says he's still warm, and just the other day he thought he needed another refit. Jixy is surprised.

In an aside, we learn Greggy spent eighty years as an exploration rover for the Luna government, had helped build the first settlements on Luna and Mars. Twenty two years ago, the other rovers were pensioned out, but Greggy got some of his augments replaced and found work on Kidland Station as a teaching assistant. He was a teacher before the rover program, and he loved it.

Back in the "present"(3), Shen Jean starts to suggest there's too much damage to be an accident, before Dubarre says it definitely wasn't one. He's holding a tool that doesn't belong on a completed station. Jixy can hardly contemplate the tool, but Dubarre says Shen Jean will have to conduct an autopsy. She doesn't want to believe someone did this, but Jixy finally catches on, and asks Dubarre to show her. The tool has what's obviously some of Greggy's tissue on it, from his head.

The worst part is that she doesn't want to think that it could be anyone they work or live with.

They bag the rest of the remains. Dubarre and Shen Jean take it to the infirmary, while Jixy arranges for a headcount of all personnel, and then starts following procedures. She makes an emergency call to the Base Admin, with a brief description of what they found and theorize so far. Next, she calls Sully, whose title isn't given, and asks them to do a rescue search. It's not strictly protocol, but it's the search that looks in every nook and cranny that might hide a person.

Jixy also checks for anomalies on the hull, finding none, though some small vehicles or power suits might not register. Stations are designed for people to show up on schedules, or be calling loudly for help, not to prevent infiltration.

The headcount comes back full, it only took so long because Joi forgot that the total included Greggy.

Jixy puts the station in emergency mode, so every hatch requires an admin code. She forces her face into a calm expression, then heads out to the lounge. She remembers Greggy saying he felt comfortable here because Kidland has so many people with prostheses and medical augments, he didn't stand out as much.(4)

Tia Joi approaches Jixy, as Sully and Aarti come from the other direction. They discuss what's happened, and Sully says they've heard of an incident kind of like this, on Juno Outremer Three-four, some thieves snuck aboard and stole supplies. The group wonders if Greggy stumbled on them and got killed for his trouble.

Lilly slides in and says they need to be detectives. Tia Joi says Lilly needs to go sit down and finish her juice. Lilly says juice is for shock, and she doesn't have shock. Jixy says Base will surely send someone soon, they just need to stay calm until then. The adults go on to the infirmary.

Going over the autopsy, Shen Jean says whoever it was, attacked Greggy from the front, and tried to take his parts. Jixy sees the expression on her face and asks what that's about. Shen Jean says there's a story, told in the Mars tunnels, about some kind of serial killer who goes after helper robots and people with augments and prostheses. Dubarre confirms, there were hazard warnings from Juno Central that warned about someone like that, called them the Piecework Killer.

Jixy says they're supposed to use critical thinking, not conspiracy theories. Dubarre says augments get stolen. Jixy counters, from morgues and medical storage, not people. Augments are usually customized, and no use to anyone but the first recipient. Maybe it's happened, but it's no time to tell everyone there's a serial killer aboard.

Dubarre asks if Jixy has Greggy's comm on her. She doesn't. Dubarre can't even find pieces of it. Shen Jean suggests the murderer took it. Dubarre offers to scan for it, but Jixy thinks whoever did this wasn't dumb enough to leave it running. She says he can try, but she needs to check on the kids.

Jixy calls Lilly and Arnie into a compartment. Lilly is talking about investigation stuff, suggesting they should look for blood splatter.(5) Jixy is about to dismiss it, but suggests Shen Jean give everyone a scan for Greggy's augment fluid, since there was so much of it. Getting back to business, though, Jixy asks if Lilly or Arnie have Greggy's comm, or remember seeing it. The kids say they didn't even think it was a person, just a prank, at first. They didn't look too closely before or after they realized that wasn't the case.

Lilly suggests the murderer took it, to listen in on their conversations. Arnie says they'd have their own comm, but Lilly says nobody who lives here did this. With the mysterious tool as a murder weapon, Jixy can't quite say she's wrong.

The sweep for augment fluid comes up negative, but so does the comm scan. The call from Base comes in, and Jixy is upset to learn the nearest help is twelve hours out. When she tells the other adults, they're no happier. Tia Joi says at least the hatches are command-sealed, but Shen Jean says they might be able to hack them or "jimmy" the hatch seals.(6)

Jixy is worried that Shen Jean is right, and someone might be hanging around, hoping for another victim, or to destroy the station somehow. They haven't messed with any systems yet, but if they came for augments to steal, this is one of the best places in civilization to find them.

She can't just stay here, so she stands and says she has to go look "down the spoke" to check something. The adults are horrified, but Lilly just asks if she's looking for clues. Jixy confirms, clues, and everyone's to stay here while she checks the supply ship. Dubarre and Shen Jean say they'll go with her, but she doesn't want them down there, so heavily augmented, such good targets. Jixy says no, and that's an order.

Dubarre follows Jixy a short way, and whispers she's doing what dumb people in horror films do. She knows, but the supply ship that arrived a few days ago was the most likely source of a stowaway. If they went back there to hide until it leaves again, she might find them, comm for help, and set a trap.

So, on Jixy goes, and through several sets of security protocols and onto the lift, where a small figure flings itself on with her just as the doors are closing. Lilly has followed Jixy, and says she needs backup. Jixy can't turn the lift around mid-journey, and now has to waste all the time going there, coming back to bring Lilly back, and going back down again. Lilly says rule number one is you don't do anything dangerous alone, you take someone who can help or call for help.

Jixy protests, but Lilly says she's the one who found him, they killed her friend. He was her first friend on Kidland. Nobody liked her because she was from Earth, but he said he was too, and they should be nicer to her, and they were. He told her he knew what it was like, to be alone. Jixy isn't surprised that Greggy shared more of his life, before and after his augments, with the kids. She says Greggy was her friend too, but her priority is keeping Lilly safe.

Lilly promises to do whatever Jixy says, and she knows a LOT about mysteries! She can help! She's already guessed that it was the last supply ship. Jixy doesn't ask how long she's guessed that, lest Jixy be embarrassed at how long it took her to catch it. Jixy is angry at herself for letting Lilly stay, but it does feel better to not be alone.

The lift reaches its destination, and Jixy tells Lilly to stay here, and hit the return if she says so. Lilly promises. Jixy looks into the corridor first, then carefuly sneaks along to the shuttle. It doesn't look tampered with. She taps the entry code, and it hisses air as it opens. She cheks the panel again, and sees atmosphere readings as if it were a live transport, not sealed supplies.

Relief and fear hit in equal measure. Good, it wasn't one of her people, but oh no, it wasn't one of her people.

Jixy backs away a bit, then comms to the adults: the shuttle's been tampered with, it's definitely how the visitor got in. She asks them to check the news reports for the last stop it made, Station Titan. She tells them Lilly snuck down as well. The adults suggest they both come back, but Jixy says that she can't. Whoever did this is competent at hacking systems. She has to find them. Shen Jean says to kick their arse. Jixy is oddly comforted by the comment, and mutes the comm again.

She enters the shuttle, carefully. She doesn't find much sign, but little things, like a sticky residue on the handle of a locker, some kind of sugar, and a piece of food wrapper in the nearby intake vent, like someone broke a liquid ration and didn't quite clean it up fully, despite being so careful everywhere else.

Lilly is excited when Jixy comes back. They examine the "clue", and Lilly says they need to check where the shuttle was last. Jixy says Shen Jean is already on it, and asks why Lilly isn't on leadership track. Lilly doesn't know, but says they need to find a motive, that will tell them what the killer wants. Jixy says real life isn't like stories, but Lilly says the stories draw from real life events.

Jixy thinks about the Piecework Killer, and wonders if stealing prosthetics for fun is wrong, and they might have some need to replace their own augments.(7) She admits Lilly might be right, the killer might have wanted Greggy's interfaces. Only, why weren't they on the shuttle waiting to leave? Lilly thinks they might know that the residents know about the shuttle, or maybe they want something else before they escape. Jixy uses her system access to look at the inventory, and says she needs to seal off a particular workshop, which is stocked with everything they'd need to replace augments.

Jixy gets a lock from Dubarre that might stay sealed even against someone who could hack a command seal, and drops off Lilly in exchange. She takes the lift on to the engineering foyer, and sneaks along. She touches the panel for the door she needs to close down, and finds it sticky. She realizes it's blood and augment fluid just as a voice says it's too late.

She turns, activating the panic button in her comm strap silently with three even, subtle presses. The person is pale, nearly colourless, except for brown eyes. Jixy says they killed Greggy, and the person asks if they gave "it" a name. Jixy says he was her friend, and a teacher. The person says he was a rover. Jixy says he was still a person. The person says to make a rover, they murder a person. Jixy says they're the one who murdered a person.

The person stares at her for a moment, and Jixy has a moment of dissociation. She asks why they need his interfaces. They say, for themself. Jixy says Greggy's augments would only work with another rover, which they'd know if they knew anything about rovers. They're almost amused at that, and show Jixy their torso, which is entirely augment.

Jixy asks how they can be a rover, they're all accounted for. They say the heroic volunteers were accounted for, they were corporate.(8) Jixy read about some of the early corporate expansion, and how unsafe it was. She thought they wouldn't have been allowed to make rovers.(9) But no, they made their own, and nobody knew. The person says, of course, to mine the precious elements from the asteroid belt.

Jixy is still confused, can't they go to a hospital for help? They say they needed a refit, and when they need something, they take it. Her friends called it Piecework. Jixy, feeling "dumb as well as terrified", says they used Greggy's comm to eavesdrop. They say they don't need the comm, they can get into any system.(10) Jixy says she could help them get the parts they need. They say she's lying.

“I’m not lying,” she said. “The Luna government, the Mars med/health agency—”(11) “The Luna government didn’t murder me. Vision Space Dynamics murdered me.” Their voice was a whisper of fury. “They said the contract would be for twenty years. Do you know how long ago that was? Vision Space Dynamics went bankrupt, and their assets went to Io Explorations, and then they were bought by Sideral, and then they went bankrupt. And then they sent the old equipment to recycling and told me to leave. It has been seventy-six years.”(12)

Jixy struggles to process. This person deserves better treatment than they got, but they also killed Greggy, and who knows how many others. But then, they have been mistreated, and this is a sort of illness of the mind, and the corporation's tech is rotting from the inside out. The whole situation is unfair.

But she thinks Greggy would want her to help.

She asks the rover's name. It says to call it Piecework. She says that's not their name, not really. She adds that "we" can help them, get them a hospital, a lawyer. The rover is dismissive, and Jixy realizes all she's done is make them mad.

Fortunately, Jixy sees a slight glint down the corridor, as of light off dark hair. Somebody's risked coming to help, thanks to her panic button. She tells the rover she's not a corporation, nor does she work for one. She can get it real help, it's what Greggy would have wanted. As their mouth twists with anger, she steps aside, hoping the others are in place.

It almost works, more or less, but it's headed for a bloodbath. Then, the rover's eyes change expression, and they open the nearest hatch, dive through, and close it behind them before anyone can follow. Dubarre wonders how they could open a biometric hatch, but Jixy says they hacked the command seals, why not this, now get it open again. As schematics load, Jixy sees that they're probably headed for a construction skid they placed as backup.

Jixy works the panel, and just as the rover is about to leave, saying it won't come back, Jixy flushes the airlock, and the rover tumbles into space.

Some of the others are glad the rover is dead, some are upset about everything. Jixy feels like she failed Greggy twice, and the rover as well. Somewhere in their mind was a person who knew their actions were wrong, who escaped instead of having to hurt the humans.(13)

When the Base patrol shows up, they send a security group and search every inch of the station. They don't find the body, or the skid.

Later, Jixy explains what happened to Lilly. Lilly says Greggy would never have done what the other rover did. Jixy says Greggy had advantages that the other one didn't, like his gentle retirement. They have no way to know what the other one went through, or their real name, or anything to follow up besides the defunct corporation name that would never be linked, this long after, to illegal rover programs.

Lilly asks how many more rovers might be out there, like this one. She asks if they could find and help them. Jixy says probably not, but she has no way to know how to find out. Lilly thinks maybe she can think of a way, someday. Jixy says, when she does, to come and tell her. Lilly nods, and goes back to the other kids.(14)

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(1)The first not from Murderbot's POV! If you've read the whole story, you know we never go to it, either. This is much earlier in the timeline, it seems. They still talk about Earth, later on. We've never heard a mention of it before. It could be much later in the timeline, but I feel like it's earlier because space expansion is so recent to them. Especially since MB mentioned a documentary about the rover-times. (2) Finding "words not used as we understand them" is always fun in fiction, particularly since it's so common in far-future scifi, but this one may take the cake for me. When I think of a fixer, I think of someone political, like in Scandal, or someone who does that plus murder. I don't think of a repair tech or general handypal. (3) I mean, such as it is. (4) Like Murderbot, hoping to fit in as an augmented human, since they're common enough that it doesn't stand out SO much unless someone has seen real SecUnits before, since they're all identical. (5) This kid is so bright, I'm glad that Jixy doesn't just shut her down every time. She tries to keep things age appropriate, but Lilly is driven to help, and I think it's really sweet and kind and good that Jixy lets her, as much as feels safe. (6) To jimmy - to pry open, especially a lock and/or with a crowbar. (7) Since we've all finished the story before reading this, we can say confidently that the rover does need replacements, just like Greggy was about to get a refit. (8) Murderbot's documentary was somewhat true, but was also false in some of the ways it predicted. Of course corporations ran their own cyborg programs in secret. (9) Wells examining just how easy it is for corporations, even in our day, to make their own rules and answer to authority later, if at all. (10) Truly the early blueprint for SecUnits, then. Such total integration, and then abandoned. It's no wonder the corporation believes the governor modules are so necessary to keep them controlled, as if we didn't already know the mistreatment and control they require are torture in MB's time. They have every reason to fear what those who they've mistreated might do to them. (11) I assume from context that she's about to suggest that they'll help, pension the rover out, like they did for their own. I'm not entirely sure why the rover jumps their response the way they do, to the corporation that made and abandoned them. (12) Not seventy six comfortable years, either. Not like Greggy got. Alone, and on the run, hiding in the corners… just like Murderbot. A mirror version of it. Made obsolete (hence the story title) and abandoned. (13) And here, again, a strange and distorted mirror to MB. (14) I don't think we've heard of anyone called Lilly in the story so far. Do you think we'll get callbacks to this story someday? Do you think it would be Lilly, or the rover, or both at once that come into focus again? Or, was this just a side story, brought to its conclusion, not to be seen anymore? I don't know how I feel, honestly.

[professorpski]

Piecework Summer 2023

I like to feature the projects with full directions contained in this issue although there are multiple historical and contemporary articles that offer inspiration as well.

The cover project with the dragons in cross-stitch is a linen pin-cushion created by Deanna Hall West based on a 1885 needlework book which had me thinking what we really need is to put some dragons on sweaters.

The 1909 Lady’s Mitts in lilac are a re-working of a pattern from Weldon’s Practical Knitter by Liz Stewart using size 2 needles and Cascade Yarns Heritage Silk a mix of merino and silk. Although they did not have cell phones to play with, they did need their fingers free yet warmed.

The cream colored square with the puffy set of leaves was inspired by the novel Anne of Green Gables, the story of a spunky orphan, and an 1871 book of patterns for knitted counterpanes, or bedspreads. This is such a daunting task that Joyce Noverr who reworked the pattern, suggests you ponder a throw, a pillow, or even a pin cushion instead.

The tiny bird with the black bead for an eye is a first project in bobbin lace created by Karen H. Thompson from DMC Perle Cotton size 8. This accompanies an article by Evelyn McMillan on far more elaborate lace projects which depicted mythical stories, and there is another on applique embroidery upon netting--called Swiss embroidery, for some reason by Karin J. Bohleke.

The cover story on Aran sweaters, the heavily cabled versions we know today, explains how no one wore such a thing in Ireland before the mid-20th century, which makes them what historians call an invented tradition. Invented, in this case, in order to create a mythic story about how old and symbolic the stitch patterns were so as to sell more sweaters! Suffragettes knitting are another topic and so are thimbles, plus there is more.

Find it at your local bookstore or online here: https://pieceworkmagazine.com/search/?search=magazine

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

Chugging along

Five more "Love in Every Color" blocks done, giving me a total of seven so far. All are made from scraps. It's amazing how much the appearance of the pattern changes just by switching up the fabrics. Pattern by Revelation Quilts on YouTube. I had intended to use plain fabric as the background for the patterned hearts, but somewhere along the way I lost track of that goal. Ooops. I think they would have looked better if I'd stuck with the original plan. Ah, well, I intend to make a lot more of these so it will be nice to have the variation. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[bones-n-bookles]

Very often I will feel like Absolute Shit for whatever reason, be it depression or physical illness or anxiety or stress or whatever, and then see a raptor or corvid and things will just. Be okay again. Be bearable. It doesn't matter if it's a scrub jay or a raven or a red tailed hawk or an eagle. Just a corvid or raptor.