Today, Christmas Eve, is the 40th anniversary of the taking of this photograph by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders:

So much in that picture. Wonder. Fragility. The need for togetherness. The hope of a better day. The tremendous improbability of this beautiful world. The necessity the better angels of our natures have become. All thoughts appropriate to the day.
Here’s to peace and hope. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Wordpress has granted me the (increasingly rare) privilege of signing in so I thought I should put a post up. But since I am currently sitting in the lobby of an Emergency Room (spider bite- not mine), I’m going to have to phone it in a bit and post the draft of a comic.