I 'm in the press room at Spokane Print & Publishing Center this chilly afternoon, working on a 2021 card. I'm making two versions. One says 2021: It can't get any worse! The other says: 2021: Shhhh, don't make it angry. There's some chronological snobbery at play, for sure, but it is safe to say we've just made it through a YEAR. And a year unlike many others. I don't need to recap. We're tired. Not even tired. Weary. Worn out. Fatigued. Much though certainly not all of that can be attributed to COVID: closures, lockdowns, debates, deaths. No words will ever do the entire disaster justice or convey the scale of it all. And right now, they don't need to. We know. But against many different kinds of odds, a vaccine has begun distribution. An election has finally been settled. The beginnings of changes to the circumstances have arrived, but that still leaves a weary populace with a lot of work to do. But for the first time in a long time, I at least feel like the work CAN be done.