Back to the Future

The start of a new year is normally accompanied by a feeling of crisp anticipation. It always reminded me of the sense that I’ve come away from the ATM, where the machine has just spit out newly minted bills. And you get to believe for a minute like anything is possible, if you just spend those dollars on the right thing. This year is a bit different than most – in that I’m really struggling to find that feeling. I t’s hard not to feel a bit “what now,” as we sort of fell through the doorway of 2022, a tangle of limbs and question marks. Is this going to be a Groundhog Day kind of year, where we simply repeat the mistakes of 2021?...