The back yard of our house adjoined miles and miles of desert mountain terrain complete with sagebrush, cacti and the assorted vertebrates and non that call such landscape home.
One caveat commonly issued by parents as we went about the business of childhood play in the great outdoors had to do with respecting, and keeping clear of, the more potentially dangerous of God's creatures.
One caution, in particular, has stuck with me all these years, if only for its delightful combination of wit and warning.
"Be careful that you don't pick up a snake to kill a stick."
What has happened in Egypt this past week is, by any measure, remarkable.
And there is something in human nature that, undoubtedly, has all of us, regardless of race, creed, color, faith or sitcom preference, cheering for those who have stood up to tyranny and, with sheer force of will, driven the bad guy out of Dodge.
But out with the bad is only the overture, not the big finish.
And what remains to be seen is who and /or what will fill the void that "the people" have created with their courage and determination.
At this writing, that's a military that has exhibited symptoms of being able to walk a thin line between the happy ending and the dark side of the force.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/12/egypt.revolution/index.html?hpt=T1
Put simply...the liberty and freedom that Egyptians have demanded and deserve is a fat lady.
And she hasn't come close to singing yet.
Here's hoping that she'll soon be wailing like an over-caffeinated Aretha.
And that the people of Egypt don't find they've picked up a snake to kill a stick.
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