Be Hopeful For Better Things

Hopeful is what we have to be, when we're really "quietly scared," to quote an esteemed colleague. All in our circle seem to be quietly scared about one thing or another these days. And we're all dead tired as well. Another year has bolted past us like third graders on their way to the yard and it was a year marked as much by things that didn't happen as things that did.
And still we keep on.
Thanks to all of you for being there, for every kindness for all the music and especially for all the laughs. I need that the most.
"So here's hoping all the verses rhyme, and the very best of choruses, too."