The greatest blog entry ever written?

John Podhoretz, writing at the Corner, linked tonight to an entry by a blogger named Tom McMahon. JPod said it "might be the greatest blog entry ever written."

I alternate between thinking JPod is man of astute political observations and thinking he's a pompous jerk. Regardless, in this instance, he may be right. McMahon's observations come from 15 years of being a father to a son with a serious brain injury. For me, there were several meaningful points:

• You gotta play out the season;
• If all you look for is the bad and ugly, you'll never see the good;
• Everybody will have a story. And yours is not the worst story.

But the meat is in McMahon's conclusion:

When Ryan was in the hospitals for those 6 months, I was working in a group of 18 people at UltraGlobalMegaCorp. Guess how many cards I got from my group in those 6 months? Approximately? All of a sudden, don't you remember somebody you need to send a card to? Or make a phone call to? Or visit? You don't need to be brilliant, or wonderful, you just have to be there. You can do this. Off you go now!

Read it. Read it again. Find something you can pull from it. Off you go now.