By DARLENE VANNEDGEWATER, Fla. -- I cannot believe that soon there will be no more Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus. There are others around but this one in Orlando was the best.
A friend needed someone to drive her and treated me to an evening at the circus some years ago. Even as an adult I was enthralled by all the acts and the animals didn’t look mistreated to me. There is just nothing like the real circus under the big top and it saddens me how many children will never have the opportunity so many have had over the 146 years of this show's existence.
Where will the performers go now? Not much call for high flyers or clown cars full of clowns and all the many other show stoppers that exist for a few more weeks. They are like families and will all be put out of work. Just what we need -- more unskilled unemployed. Frankly, I feel as badly for we the audience as I do the entertainers.
We are losing so much of ourselves as entire species of animals go extinct on our watch, small businesses have little chance of succeeding, the planet is changing so fast and we are not prepared for that either. Next extinction will be human beings if we don’t watch out.
A friend needed someone to drive her and treated me to an evening at the circus some years ago. Even as an adult I was enthralled by all the acts and the animals didn’t look mistreated to me. There is just nothing like the real circus under the big top and it saddens me how many children will never have the opportunity so many have had over the 146 years of this show's existence, as shown here with these clowns.
Where will the performers go now? Not much call for high flyers or clown cars full of clowns and all the many other show stoppers that exist for a few more weeks. They are like families and will all be put out of work. Just what we need -- more unskilled unemployed. Frankly, I feel as badly for we the audience as I do the entertainers.
We are losing so much of ourselves as entire species of animals go extinct on our watch, small businesses have little chance of succeeding, the planet is changing so fast and we are not prepared for that either. Next extinction will be human beings if we don’t watch out.
Today few fix up old historic houses because it is easier to just tear them down and build anew. We are lucky some past presidents were thoughtful enough to save large chunks of land for parks that can’t be built or hunted upon. When the rest of the country is cement, at least we can go see what life used to be like.
I know I sound like the voice of doom over the closing of a circus, but it just brought all these thoughts and feeling out of me. I am 70 years old now and glad of it because hopefully I won’t live to see the end of the planet come. I will die hopeful, though, that someone will start making changes that turn all this around for the sake of the generations to come. Pray for us and them, please, and do what you can to help the world be a better place.