Some call the start of a New Year a new beginning. Blank pages. Fresh canvas.
The reality is the turn of a calendar page into 2021 simply marks the man-made passage of time. Nothing is true today that was false on Dec. 31, 2020. We cannot check our problems and challenges at the door of the old year as we enter the new one.
If I have learned anything in my near 60 years on this Earth, the continuance of time and its ongoing issues are are incontrovertible facts. Â
My talented colleague, Katie Ellington, offered a wonderful year-in-review earlier this week, a piece that revealed the huge, caring hearts of this community, allowing us to weather the storm of the past 12 months together.