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Reader question: Please explain this passage, particularly “burying your head in the sand”: Understanding your tax obligations, piecing together a “strategy” based on free or cheap advice, or simply burying your head in the sand can cost your time, energy and potentially a lot of money. My comments: They’re telling people to seek solid professional advice in answering to your tax obligations. Seeking professional help, that is, instead of free or cheap advice, or simply trying to ignore the problem altogether. Especially the latter, burying your head in the sand like an ostrich and pretending by not facing up to it now, the problem will somehow go away or disappear like poker cards in the hands of magicians. Poker cards and magicians are neither here nor there. What’s relevant is the ostrich, a large bird that boasts of long feet and a long neck, a large body and a tiny head and short wings. Ostriches are flightless but can run fast, really fast, like, as fast as a car. Evolution-wise, the ostrich must have developed smaller wings because it can run so fast that it no longer needs to take flight and roam in the sky. Anyways, Europeans in the long past used to believe that when facing a predator or some other form of threat, ostriches bury their heads in the sand, simply pretending the threat isn’t there. This observation has since been proved erroneous of course. Ostriches don’t do that. They run so fast that there’s really no need for taking, as it were, the head-in-the-sand approach. | 
