2021 Closing a Challenging Year
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By Rev. Amari Magdalena We seemingly begin each new year with hopes, dreams, goals, and those nefarious resolutions that are oft whisked away in the buzz of living in an electronic age. Some of us attempt to reclaim the newness with other New Years, Chinese, Nowruz etc. Anything to keep hope of unmet aspirations alive. Yet life moves on and we are met by the positive and negative. Hopefully we’ve learned as in Tao, to not place an uneven emphasis on either. That illusive quality of time seemed to dissolve in 2021, a numerological 5 year of change. Just as many of us were celebrating a change in governance, a January political coup taught us how very fragile is our democracy. We witnessed a rise in hatred when love and acceptance were much needed. Conquering a deadly virus seemed within reach and yet we end this year with a troubling variant seemingly taking us back to ground zero. Frustration over isolation and dramatic change...