The last day of the year has finally arrived. I am not sure what to expect going into the final year of this decade, but I know that getting through this one was challenging.

I'm not all that good at making lists of milestones, best/worst or really anything of that sort. I know that this year was literally challenging on a political front every single day. I don't have faith that those challenges will change going into the third year that we all live under the thumb of this administration.

It's still abnormal, unacceptable and deeply disturbing. It's probably gotten more chaos-filled these past twelve months. We've got Kim Jun UN, Kanye, and the Boofer installed on the Supreme court; A practically all 'Acting-Officials in the administration; Porn Stars and Russian honeypots and countless other scandals that should have resulted with the occupant of the office resigning in disgrace and every time someone says we've hit rock bottom, Rock Bottom says hold my beer!.

Here we are, years after this awfulness was forced upon us, I still maintain, this cannot sustain. We saw the beginning of the change with a record-breaking election day. We can get through this but only together. A wise man once said: "Yes We Can".

That same man also said: “Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”

Insist, Resist, Persist.

&
Raine