Commentary

November 2, 2004 has come and gone and justice has once again been segregated to the back of the bus on so called "moral" grounds. Peter Tosh once said, "there can be no peace without justice" and I tend to believe that he was right. With this latest turn of events flying in the face of justice I feel the need for all of us to fight in the best way we know how has now taken on a profound importance. The Owl (as is the case in this piece) has always spoken to me of the ability and necessity for night sight and silent flight. Perched on the shoulder of Justice it sees the Truth no matter how dark the night might get for our collective Souls. An interesting side note to the presence of this Owl is that it literally came to visit shortly before I began work on Justice. My wife Stefanie spotted it perched in a tree not ten feet from our house in broad daylight. We all went outside and watched it for quite some time from maybe a five foot distance and it just hung around offering Stefanie a chance to capture it digitally at close range. At one time it even swooped down to the ground beside me grabbed a grasshopper went back to it's previous perch and proceeded to have lunch.