This page continues from an entry titled » The Heart of the White Evangelical has Become Calloused and Hardened and Morally Unfeeling (21 Dec 2021).
Normally I would begin today's entry ..
.. with the standard greeting used to wish you-n-yours a happy New Year. After a while, you do it without really thinking.
But this year, this New Year's greeting does not feel right. The thought of saying, "Happy New Year," rings false to me.
And let's be honest, folks. Let's all make like good existentialists for a moment, and not hide our heads in the sand from the ugliness that life can sometimes be.
Because this happens to be one of those times.
Because there are many reasons that would lead any sane, rational person to feel less-than-thrilled about the prospects for the future.
Who does not know exactly what I am talking about?
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