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.
As much as we might look at our last tantrum and wish to open with, “In cheerier news …”, well, right. Like we’re gonna do that.