Red Light Green Light

 

It’s on some of the on-ramps here in Columbus, Ohio.  They are stop and go lights on the top of a pole that alternate red and green to control the flow of traffic onto the highway.

My mind is prone to metaphors and switches to the flow of humans into this world coming in at a steady but staggered pace: red light, green light, red light, green light.

I’d been on the highway for quite some time before my son got his green light and then several years later my daughter got hers.  They are lights in their own right, impossibly shiny.     

And now I’m thinking more about off-ramps, especially with the radio informing me this morning we are having over a thousand deaths a day from this pandemic.

I personally know several who have been forced off the highway at this particular off-ramp and I am sure I will learn of several more before it is all said and done.  

Drive safely and care for your neighbor.

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