Giving Death The Finger
A reader sent this to me. Wtf? And thank you.
This is a woman in hospice care, on her deathbed. At death’s doorstep.
And apparently this is part of her family. Grandsons? Great-grandsons? Who knows.
You’ve gotta love this. Her feisty spirit and ‘game’ is what struck me. Is that a gesture she made often in her life? (‘Come on Nona, flip ‘um the bird like you always did!’).
Or is this for a laugh like when you tell a two-year-old to say ‘fuck it?’
Is she watching the Republican debates? Or flipping off the kid taking the picture? Or is she giving death the finger?
God, I hope it’s death.
She looks as if she’s lived a good long life with her sense of humor intact until the end…
“I imagine you like this at the end”, the reader said when he sent the photo.
What a compliment.
I hope so dear reader.
I aspire.
Carry on,
xox
