Ready for 2025 to Go

Some years are better than others. 1968 – with the asssintion of MLK and RFK and the Vietnam war, 2001 with he 9/11 attack, stock market crash of 2008 stands out in my mind as some bad ones. But 2025, with the guide book of project 2025 will probably go down as the worst for me.

Personally it was not a terrible year. My family is healthy, I had meaningful work, my child is thriving, I met and made hundreds of new friends. But I also lost a couple of friends, and I miss them.

The hard part of this year was how our country changed. And the worst part for me was how many people thought it was OK. I will never be OK with a government that allows one person to set the agenda with no checks and balances. I am not OK with a lack of due process. I do not want people to feel afraid to go to school or go to work because they worry if a loved one will be taken while they are gone. I don’t like people being disappeared with no record.

I personally was not subject to these issues, yet I personally felt the ugliness that grew in our country this this year. I yearn for the place that believed that if your neighbor was doing better you were happy for your neighbor. Sadly I feel like now we are in a place where if one is doing badly then that one wants everyone to do worse than they are.

My hope for 2026 is that everyone does better. Everyone is kinder. Everyone is more generous. Everyone finds happiness and spreads joy.