IS THAT LITTLE BO PEEP?

        Does anybody feel as if they hear the voice of Little Bo Peep calling for her errant flock? Would that we had our shepherd calling out, seeking diligently to find that missing flock. Instead we have an errant and missing, hopeless supposed shepherd rather than another Bo Peep. 
      Gov. Pritzker of Illinois tells Trump to "get off Twitter and do your job!" Mayors and governors from around the country are up in arms for the lack of leadershp from that man, even as he boasts that he has done much.
     Truthfully, he has done much. He has increased the confusion tenfold. He has insured that our first line responders in this crisis are surely falling into a disaster as their gear is diminishing with no replenishment. This, as the "wartime" president refuses to ramp up production, as he spreads falsehoods galore, telling people it will be over soon, or he has found a miraculous drug - NOT! All the while, nothing, but nothing, gets done on the federal level unless it is done by non appointees, people who have the courage and the strength of character to take him to task and call out his lies as they speak the truth.
     Meanwhile, we are a flock missing its leader. The nastiness of partisanship continues in Congress even as the country sinks further and further into crisis. To think that now we are speaking of Before and After and I know my grandkids are asking what that means. They want to know if they ever will see us again. I cry at that and I am sad wondering if we will outlast this epidemic, health and economic, and will I ever see my family again. Now that is a frightening state of being, worrying about never before worries.
     Meanwhile, we have new heroes. We have doctors, nurses, orderlies, aides, paramedics, firemen, police, good people who bring food to the shutins. and now the truckers. These brave people keep on truckin' as they bring the supplies to us. They are away from their families, at risk  for exposure, and without them there truly would be nothing to buy in the stores. Havoc would descend upon us.
      A flock needs its shepherd, one that cares for it, that tends to it, that will go after that lost one no matter the terrain. David was such a shepherd. We hope that at least some of our religious leaders are such. We hope, perhps fruitlessly, that we will find a politician worthy of becoming our shepherd. As for the one in the WH right now - worthless, less than useless and dangerous in his incompetence, in his braggadacio, in his empty words and gusts of hot air.
      So as we wait in our homes or stand in line hoping no one breathes on us, terrified of a cough, even now, the economy is tanking faster than the Titanic, with our false shepherd still favoring   corporate over the people, and having lost the reins - if he ever had them - of control, of wisdom, of hope, of positive and concrete steps towards handling this crisis and related problems.
      Oh Little Bo Peep, where are you? We need you. Please take away this broken one we now have masquerading as a shepherd and take his place. BoPeep come , come out, wherever you are!