Considerations for the New Year
Considerations for the New Year Welcome all, we hope you are well. So many plans and ideas have spun through my mind in recent days, and I often find myself overwhelmed by the need to do more than I am physically and mentally capable of. Even so, a feeling deep in my chest and in the pit of my stomach makes me move, forces my hand. “Write,” it says. “Please,” it begs. So write I shall. Words cannot properly sum up all of the abstract feelings floating around inside, proper reactions to our own daily lives that cannot compare to the feelings of helplessness and powerlessness that come as we not only consider the larger events of our world, but the thousands of years of history that led us to where we are in the present day. To write about modern injustices, we must discuss the sins of the past. To write about contemporary successes, we must first discuss historical defeats. My heart and mind are heavy as I look over and contemplate the world. The promise of a new year seems ...