Essay: What There Was to Be Grateful for in 2018

It’s a challenge to manage the year end inventory of blessings when so many ghouls and goblins haunted 2018. The gangsters. The politicians. The politicians who turned out to be gangsters. The fires and floods and winds that seared and soaked and shredded towns from sea to shining sea. The Robin Hood remake. Orange wine. Facebook.But like any physical and mental therapy, when the exercises are hard, they are helping. This is a year when a pause to dwell in gratitude may be what we need most of all.

It’s a challenge to manage the year end inventory of blessings when so many ghouls and goblins haunted 2018. The gangsters. The politicians. The politicians who turned out to be gangsters. The fires and floods and winds that seared and soaked and shredded towns from sea to shining sea. The Robin Hood remake. Orange wine. Facebook.But like any physical and mental therapy, when the exercises are hard, they are helping. This is a year when a pause to dwell in gratitude may be what we need most of all.