Right Something Every Day

Okay, I cannot say I actually do that--right something every day. But I do write every day, as long as email and text count as writing (and I say they do so they do). I suppose one would be insufferable if you were in the business of Righting things Every Day. Or maybe one would be a knight or person infused with mission?
But I am a pretty straight (okay, wavy) and narrow kind of person. I like to know what the structure or pattern of something is so I can understand, follow or change it. I do believe there are certain things that are right (dogs) and certain things that aren't (evil, so-called "benign" neglect, many things). Last night I pushed myself to watch the film Blackfish, about orcas in capitivity, particularly the orca Tilikum, who has killed trainers and a trespasser at Sea World and his previous park, Sea Land in Victoria, BC. The film was especially hard to watch. I have loved orcas for many years now and been lucky enough to see them in the wild near the straits of St. Juan de Fuca. Seeing wild orcas was a singular, holy experience for me. It was, as people in the documentary describe it, being in the midst of awe and wonder.
Seeing orcas at Sea World is heartbreaking. Such beauty and intelligence, imprisoned and trotted out to perform. I even saw Tilikum once, b/c the entry fee I paid to visit an artificial reef nature park included a free ticket to Sea World. So Christmas eve in 2011 Tilikum and I were together. He was the largest orca I've ever seen, brought out at the end of the show to amaze guests with his size.
When I lived in Seattle I avidly followed the plight of a stranded orca calf who got lost amidst the fishing boats in the sound and the attempts to bring her to open water. It was an amazing collaboration of people, groups, governments, agencies to save something wild. Blackfish showed the opposite--the horrific act of hunting and capturing orcas in the same waters in the 1970s.  I'm sure some of the same orcas were there for both incidents--capture and release. They must find humans so strange, so misguided.

http://www.change.org/p/seaworld-please-free-tilikum-and-your-other-orcas-to-a-sea-pen-for-rehabilitation