Year's End

2025 was not a normal year. The turbulence of events in the world, and at home, has been extreme. But somehow, the end of a year, and the start of another, like the dawn of a new day, always brings new hopes. My principal hope is that somehow, the political situation at home will change, that this fever dream we are living will come to a end, and that sanity, and the rule of law, will once again prevail. On a larger plane, I hope, but with little confidence, that Ukraine will finally have a just and secure peace and that the humanitarian situation in Gaza will improve. I hope this wave of public violence, and anti-semitic violence, that the nation and the world are experiencing will abate. I hope that, especially at home, we can return to a measure of civil discourse and empathy for our fellow humans, wherever they may come from, and whatever may have brought them here.