2019 was a weird year: 2 of our kids graduated from college (yay!) and I fulfilled my dream of getting on the NYT Bestseller's list (4 weeks with no help from a political committee!) and my #amjoy fam kept winning. But the things that happened in this country were so disturbing.
It's hard to whoop it up too much, thinking about the migrant kids (even babies) who might never see their parents again; the refugees turned away to face God knows what; the mass shooting victims, the farmers (though they voted for it) going under from trade wars... it's a LOT.
Neo-Nazism is surging. Corruption too. And the American president is having phone têtes-à-tête with Russia that we only find out about FROM Russia while strong-arming foreign nations for dirt to help him stay in power. America is isolated. POTUS? Notorious & laughed at. The AG?
We've fallen even further behind fighting climate change (oh, by the by, Australia is on fire!) And while the super-rich & corps sucked up a trillion dollars in tax cuts most everyone else feels broke or has to take extra jobs. Voter suppression is rampant & 2020 is critical AF.
So yes, Happy New Year. Prayerfully 2020 will be better. In fact, let's hope it's so good that our college graduates can afford to move out and live on their own without 16 roommates, voter suppression gets beaten back, there's a real impeachment trial & Dems find a way to unite.
So in 2020, let's hope for some hope crammed in with the horror, more amazing things to watch (the Queen @ReginaKing and future Emmy winner @junecarryl sound like a ticket to me!) and let's find the spark that keeps us fighting hard but also loving and laughing it out. Much love!
