As we begin a new year, I wish each of you a peaceful and happy one with this acrostic.
H ere we are staring
A nother new year in the face. I have long since quit making resolutions which are just
P romises I don’t keep. I do like to look behind and ahead like the god Janus and make some judgments about how things would be if the
P lan were up to me. This year I start with a
Y earning that the editor’s taste-testing
N ibble on my manuscript will turn into a full-fledged publication and promotion of it as a reader’s feast. Not all of my longings for 2022 are that selfish. I would like for
E veryone to live without concern that there might be a shooter around the next corner, but
W ith security for justice and adequate food and housing. A related and seemingly impossible desire is for
Y our politicians and mine to make choices based on what’s good for the people rather than whether it was proposed by a Democrat or a Republican. For all of us, I would like a year where
E ach of us lives by the Golden Rule. I close my acrostic with hopes
A nd prayers for a departure that you probably share. I want to see a tombstone that reads, “
R est in Peace, Covid 19.”
