The Garden of Bein’

2021 has dawned! Happy New Year! How’d you spend the Eve? Dinner, dancing, social distancing (aka not socializing at all)? Author’s note: it’d better have been that last one. Oh man, 2021 feels…..I don’t know…..oh wait, yes, I do know: 2021 feels exactly like 2020.

Turns out an arbitrary date, on an arbitrary calendar and arbitrary time meted out by arbitrary time pieces didn’t change a damn thing about reality. A pandemic raging on? Check. A pandemic of misinformation? Check. A disastrous vaccine rollout? Check. Government officials behaving badly on both sides of the border (worse on the…