Doug Skeggs
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
— Claire Scovell LaZebnik
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
What a year this has been. We’ve seen a global pandemic and political insanity that can only be described as frightening. So many people are dealing with the loss of friends and family, as well as the loss of personal contact with people they care about.
But deep inside the evolved human psyche is a mechanism that helps us keep our spirits up and live through troubling times — humour. Keeping your humour while those about you are losing theirs is an important pathway to survival in difficult times.
History is replete with examples of finding humour in tough times. There is a rhyme making its way around the Internet purported to be a popular children’s ditty with origins during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic:
I had a little bird
Its name was Enza
I opened up the window and
In flew Enza
The Internet, among many other things, is a place where people can express and share their humour in troubling times. Here’s some of the humour that has kept me smiling over the past 10 months or so. You may have seen a couple of them already.
A Bunch of Yahoos. (This is not meant as a political statement.)
And one more seasonal treat: Make it so!
As we finally bring 2020 to a close and launch the new year with a sense of hope and charity, let’s find time to laugh and share our laughter with others. It’s good therapy.
We hope that CFIC has helped you with facts, information, and humour. The very best to all of our readers for a healthy 2021!