
Briefly: Sure, if your mother is still accessible to you in this world, give her a hug.
The rest of this is just … I don’t know, silly.
Quite literally on the day Keith Knight’s cartoon, detailed above, posted at Daily Kos Comics, a note popped up from a friend that her mother had fallen and broken her arm. You know, a request for prayers and best wishes.
Naturally, I sent my friend a link to the cartoon.
It was … what, two days later? Another friend informed us that her mother had fallen and broken her wrist. Prayers and best wishes dutifully filed in, and I won’t nitpick the point that it seems a dubious proposition to pray that God will undo His will and magically heal the damage. We can set prayer aside, and just send cartoons on such occasions.
A bit before midnight last night that same friend checked in: “So, guess what…Mom fell again today. This time she broke her right wrist.”
Sigh. I don’t have a cartoon link for this one.
Best wishes, of course. But come on, either God or Keith Knight—who do I get to blame for this absurdity?
How about Isaac Newton?
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Knight, Keith. “Visiting Germany”. Daily Kos. 11 November 2014.