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A Zoom version of the Last Supper is tweeted on Easter by Politico's Ben White. No designer is credited.
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it."
-- Charlie Chaplin
Disease and danger are no laughing matter, but that doesn't mean every waking moment of indefinite isolation must be maudlin, morbid and morose. That's just not healthy.
Plus, life sure has turned wacky in all sorts of ways -- so we feed the need for comic relief by passing along bits of whimsy earning social media appreciation.
To quote the esteemed cultural scholar Mel Brooks: "Humor is just another defense against the universe."
In that defiant spirit, enjoy a few Easter Sunday smiles while looking forward to a time when these will be among reminders of a spring unlike any other before or after, let's surely hope.
Ken Coleman of Detroit snapped and tweeted this April 6 before city workers removed the Spirit of Detroit's adornment soon after.
Update on a Rosie the Riveter classic from World War II and a matching-spirit selfie tweeted this week by state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak.
Meme shared on Facebook a few days ago by Detroit attorney Cliff Woodards II.
Lawn ornaments for our time, tweeted by journalist Heidi N. Moore of New York City as "garden gallows humor."
