Musings at the COVID New Year

As we approach the COVID-quieted New Year, my wife and I sit and chat, mostly about the quotidian: what to do tonight or that we have a new granddoggie. We wryly smile that excitement is a trip to the supermarket.

But in the silences and amid my pre-New-Year's walks, the following thoughts have entered my mind. I share them in hopes they might inform some of your New Year's thinking, feeling, and conversation.