so, why the canary with the halo?

The canary has alway been the signaler. The thing that seems to sense what the rest of us might not, not yet. 

Maybe the canary’s come back to tell us something. That there’s something just beyond the horizon we should be looking for.

That’s our muse. Not a dead bird, but that thing in your heart stirring you can’t name but you know is there. The feeling you wish you’d have trusted that was right in the end. The wisdom to listen to your better angels, and the joy of landing somewhere a little different, first.