Sometimes when something is so right, you barely even notice it. It just flows, feels normal and natural. But this is when it's all too easy to take it for granted. Like love. Like good health. Like community. Like our living planet.
The American legal system rarely works so smoothly that complacency is guaranteed, or justified. When all goes swimmingly in a highly charged, controversial, high-stakes (just extinction, that's all) criminal case like the Lobster Boat Blockade Trial, it's kind of shocking, numbing and just swell, all at the same time. Maybe not a lot of people have had this experience, but I highly recommend it. Hopefully judicial smooth sailing will become more popular, even common, the new normal. A sea change. Photo of DA Sutter, credit: Peter Bowden
The American legal system rarely works so smoothly that complacency is guaranteed, or justified. When all goes swimmingly in a highly charged, controversial, high-stakes (just extinction, that's all) criminal case like the Lobster Boat Blockade Trial, it's kind of shocking, numbing and just swell, all at the same time. Maybe not a lot of people have had this experience, but I highly recommend it. Hopefully judicial smooth sailing will become more popular, even common, the new normal. A sea change. Photo of DA Sutter, credit: Peter Bowden
It doesn't just happen for wishing, though. It took weeks, months, years of work, interfaith prayers, volunteer effort, thoughtful messaging, local organizing and regional networking – preparing for the worst while hoping for the best – to create the conditions for the most righteous outcome for this case, which proved to be beyond our greatest expectations. All we can do is to create those conditions, set our intentions, act boldly and then let the magic work. And it worked.
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