Center For Human Potential - Barbara Forgue, LPC

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Barbara Forgue, LPC

04/04/2026

When a crow finds another crow lying lifeless, it often does not just fly away.

It calls out. Other crows gather. They become alert. They watch the area carefully.

Scientists have studied this behavior, sometimes called a “crow funeral,” and what they’ve found is striking. The crows do not appear to gather out of sentimentality in the human sense. They gather to learn. They look for danger. They try to understand what happened. And if they identify a threat, they remember it.

Crows are highly intelligent. They can recognize faces, remember risks, and warn others. So when they gather around a fallen crow, they may be doing something deeply adaptive: turning loss into awareness, and awareness into protection.

There is something important in that.

Many humans are taught to look away from what is painful. To avoid it. To numb themselves. But crows do something else. They pay attention. They investigate. They learn together.

That is a form of intelligence.

Not just mental intelligence, but social intelligence.

The kind that understands survival is not only about individual strength, but about shared awareness. About noticing danger. About communicating it. About helping the group become wiser because one life was lost.

Maybe that is part of what emotional intelligence really is too.

Not collapsing in the face of pain.
Not ignoring it.
But staying present enough to learn from it, and caring enough to make that knowledge useful to others.

A fallen crow does not go unnoticed.

The others gather.
They pay attention.
And they carry the lesson forward.

03/30/2026

The earthworm under your lawn has five hearts, no eyes, no lungs, and no brain as you'd recognize one.

She has a nerve cord that runs the length of her body with a cluster of ganglia at the front that processes input from light-sensitive cells in her skin. She can detect light and dark but can't form images. She navigates entirely by touch, vibration, moisture gradient, and chemical sensing. She's been doing this for 600 million years — 350 million years before the first dinosaur walked.

Tonight she'll come to the surface. She anchors her tail in her burrow with tiny bristles called setae and extends her front end across the soil, sweeping an arc as wide as her body length — 6 inches — eating everything in reach. She consumes soil, digests the organic matter, and excretes castings that contain 5 times more nitrogen, 7 times more phosphorus, and 11 times more potassium than the surrounding soil.

She processes a strip of soil 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep every night. In a year, the earthworm population under one acre of lawn moves 18 tons of soil upward through their bodies and deposits it on the surface as castings. They turn over the entire topsoil layer every 10-20 years.

Charles Darwin spent his last 40 years studying earthworms. His final book — published 6 months before his death — was "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms." He measured their soil-moving ability by placing stones on the surface and recording how quickly worm castings buried them. His conclusion: worms are the most important animal on Earth. Not the most impressive. The most important.

The ground you're standing on was built by the animal you step on without noticing.

Five hearts. No eyes. Six hundred million years of quietly building the world from the bottom up.

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