Through the years, we all will be together, if the fates allow [Baldo letter]
Ana Adams, Rockville
In the "Baldo" comic strip, there is a girl named Rayna who gets to hang out with others through "telepresence," a monitor on a wheeled robot.
To someone who often has to interact with others during the holidays through video chat because of illness, attending events via telepresence would be genuinely life-changing.
Unfortunately, it's still pricey, and, much more significantly, people would treat my attendance as strange.
I hope with time it will become an accessibility feature at events, schools and conferences, not unlike offering wheelchairs.
Thank you for normalizing it and making me feel represented. It means so much.
Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow [ Nick Galifianakis letter]
Suzan Charlton, Arlington
Washington Post Dec 14 2024: A13.
Thank you, Nick Galifianakis, for the beautiful illustration that accompanied Carolyn Hax's Dec. 7 column, "Grieving parents 'shocked' that surviving child plans a wedding two years later," about planning a wedding while grieving a loss. The posture and expression of the bride, with her hand over her heart, her eyes closed and her face upturned, perfectly evoked the poignant, mixed emotions expressed by the reader and in Hax's response. I enjoy your cartoons immensely, usually for their wry humor, but this one captured my heart.
Feel the love in the room from the floor to the ceiling [Edith Pritchett letter]
Norman Michael Harman, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Washington Post Dec 14 2024: A13.
I'd been mulling over this letter for months, and Edith Pritchett's Nov. 30 cartoon finally gave me the impetus to write. My biggest question is: Why? Why is half of the op-ed page given to Pritchett's non-funny, non-political, non-satirical, non-mocking, non-anything scribbling? Compared with her work, the comic strip "Nancy" is an icon of cogent political satire and high-minded fine art.
I pine for the days of the great Pat Oliphant and Art Buchwald, but, alas, it seems their caliber of humor is gone from The Post forever.
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