Crows and Kairos : an invocation -- Getting up : a reluctant crow watcher -- Preparing : a crash course for the urban naturalist -- Reading : crow stories and animal alphabets -- Walking : the wildness of home -- Dwelling : how we nest -- Helping : an uncertain grace -- Seeing : the monk, the professor, and the sense of wonder -- Coexisting : finding our place in the zoöpolis -- Dying : crows of death and life -- Flying : wings, reality, hope.