2021 Isn’t A Magical Cure

I’m over it, as so are you, 2020 that is. The number has long lost its meaning of clarity and perfect vision and instead represents anguish, loneliness, and dumpster fire after dumpster fire.

2021 feels like a fresh start.

Except that it isn’t.

We’re still in the muck.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that…