What is a circus?

That is a question our great grandkids will

probably be asking.   Or your grandchildren.

As I watched the new, there was a report that

Ringling Barnum Bailey Circus will have their

last show in May.  I don’t know if some of the

smaller ones will also quit or maybe they already

have.  There hasn’t been one in our area for years.

We did take our grandson to one many years ago.

I think he was about 10. He is now 26.  It wasn’t

RBBC’s circus, but it was pretty good.  The side

shows didn’t seem to be up to par, but over all good.

Myself, I have seen RBBC many times. I saw it

in R.I. as a kid a couple times. I saw it in San

Diego, twice.  I have seen the lesser ones a couple

of times.. The one we took our grandson to, is the

last one. 

It is sad that kids will not be in awe as the elephants

parade by.. or the high wire acts wobble across the

wire. Or the trapeze act is flying over head.  I find

it all sad.

I thought it was because of the PETA people who

have been after the circus for years to drop the

elephant acts out of the show, but the report said

that the people just haven’t been coming out as

much as they use to.  That kids are more into

reading their screens than they are into seeing

the trapeze artist and the animal acts.  Again…

Sad..

Just another thing that I am so happy was in my child

hood, that kids won’t get to experience.  As I was thinking

about how my great grandchildren missing out, I thought

back to my grandchildren. Which 90% of them are adults

now.. and wondered how many of them have been to a circus.

If I won the lotto, I would buy tickets to the RBBC last show

in May, for all of them.  All children should experience the

awe of the circus in their lifetime.