While I hope that 2023 is better, I really have no enthusiasm that it will be.

But to stop hoping is to start the decline to the belief that there is no reason to keep trying.

I will keep trying, and I hope you do as well.

At the end of it all, we are still better here in the US than most of the rest of the world’s citizens.

And for that, I am thankful.

Let us see what 2023 brings us, and pray that we can face it head on.

I expect that you, like me, will be happy to see 2022 fade into the distance.

I hope that each and every one of you have a better 2023.