Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

This morning I read the story of Mara the elephant in the New York Times. She is fifty years old and all her life she has been in servitude, either working, in a circus or in the Buenos Aires zoo. People in Argentina wanted her and the other animals in the zoo to have better lives, so they found homes for hundreds of them, some in the U.S. Mara was offered a spot in an elephant sanctuary in Brazil, but the Covid 19 hit and it the travel got very complicated. Due to many people's determination, she is now happily free and has even made a new friend, another Asian elephant. In the midst of all our whining and grumbling, there are people devoted to doing good at some risk to themselves. They take responsibility for the harm humans have done to our animal coinhabitants of our planet.