Fun fact: there’s a stellar sea lion at my zoo who is, in fact, in sea lion jail.
This big boy is an absolute GLUTTON for endangered salmon, so he had to be relocated by like idk fish and wildlife ig. But he… came back. So they moved him again. And he… came back. Eventually their only choice was to lock him up in the local zoo.
If you look in his eyes you can see him plotting to get back to that river and eat his fill in forbidden fish once more.
“Optimism is radical. It is the hard choice, the brave choice. And it is, it seems to me, most needed now, in the face of despair—just as a car is most useful when you have a distance to close. Otherwise it is a large, unmovable object parked in the garage. These days, the safest way for someone to appear intelligent is being skeptical by default. We seem sophisticated when we say “we don’t believe” and disingenuous when we say “we do.” History and fable have both proven that nothing is ever entirely lost. David can take Goliath. A beach in Normandy can turn the tide of war. Bravery can topple the powerful. These facts are often seen as exceptional, but they are not. Every day, we all become the balance of our choices—choices between love and fear, belief or despair. No hope is ever too small.”
