Thanks so much, @futuremind, for being so understanding - and cutting me some slack. :)
My sister is tired from chemo and "in a lot of pain" - she who'd whip up a turkey dinner from scratch several times a year, even in July, because it's her favorite.
For all the homeless, all the hungry, all those who suffer months and years of pain and illness -
May all be well, hard as it is to believe the Buddha and Catholic mystic Julian of Norwich. All shall be well.