JON GLOVER CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
Tiny Tim walked through tulips singing a song about how those tulips used to influence a behavior or an attitude toward another. Tulips are very beautiful flowers. Tulips are worth not bringing any disruption that takes away from their beauty. However, what happens when one steps on one of those tulips, sort of as we are seeing today, complaining about everything?
As thought given to those tulips (issues) and many a tulip trodden, the tulip (issue) loses. Those tulips become a concern. How is there a repairing of the tulip by which the essence and beauty of the tulip remain?
Every day we have a new spin to an issue that seems to affect our very livelihood and, thus, the beauty of the tulips (issues) lose their savor.
Beginning with the coronavirus. That tulip, the coronavirus, not so pretty, shut down the world. A tulip bringing the world to its knees.
Now these tulips — mandates — are upon all because of the coronavirus. Now we all know that the coronavirus, that tulip, that horrible, ugly tulip, now dictates mask wearing.
Tulips are beautiful, and yet this tulip, the coronavirus — not really a tulip but one worthy of tiptoeing through carefully — could save lives, yours and my life.
Tulips are beautiful when you take in its aroma, such beauty, and yet if you don’t tiptoe through those tulips, there is no aroma, just an ugly flower that has lost its savor, its beauty.
So tiptoeing, carefully walking through the tulips that lose their purpose helps the effects not leaving beyond the scope of its positioning, such is with the coronavirus.
Walking through the tulips and every day having the coronavirus ever changing in its shape really does make one stop and look at the effects of this ugly tulip, the coronavirus, and then decide what it will take the restore the tulip, not the virus, to the beauty that it once held.
It would appear no one really knows how to restore the beauty of the tulips in its entirety because what stands at the center is the ugly coronavirus. If there isn’t a proven plan to safely remove that one tulip, the coronavirus, then the rest of the tulips — us, we the people — suffer. Therefore, how do we remove this ugly tulip, the coronavirus?
Well, the governmental entities are enacting legislation to help remove that ugly tulip, the coronavirus. Mandates to remove the coronavirus takes skill. Those skills, carefully used, removing that one tulip, that ugly tulip, returns the beauty of all those beautiful tulips that many stopped seeing because of that one ugly tulip, the coronavirus.
Now this is where my writing becomes personal. I get to choose. You get to choose. You and I get to choose if we care enough about our fellow man. Do we? Beauty awaits! No longer that ugly tulip, the coronavirus. God bless!
THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE July 17 ISSUE OF FOCUS SB - THE INQUISITOR.