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The Reset Button

When the ball drops tonight at midnight, and glasses are clinking and friends and family are wishing you a Happy New Year, I’m confident that I will be fast asleep.   Believe me, I’m just as excited as you to say goodbye to this wretched, ill-fated year.   I’m an eternal optimist but I’m also a realist.   When the calendar flips to January 1 st , 2021, nothing really will change except for the date on your iPhone.   I’m afraid 2021 is going to look a lot like 2020, at least at first.   Covid cases continue to surge, deaths are still climbing at an alarming rate, and it appears that even the distribution of the vaccine is going to be a giant shitshow.   I wish 2021 was like a reset button that we could hit and have our lives go back to normal in an instant.   Sadly, reset buttons only work for computers and video games, but not in the game of life.   There’s a book that I read a long time ago called “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood.  ...