What about the past year?

How was this past year? Living in a pandemic has been difficult for most if not all of us. Yep, me included. Being a therapist doesn't prevent me from having worry, stress and loss; but it does afford me the opportunity to view this with a more nuanced lens than most people might have. I have doom scrolled way too much this year, but then I started to think about it, and you know what? I think I've actually been looking for hope. I've been hope scrolling, but the news these days is way more focused on doom, and that diet for my brain is not helpful, nor feeding me with the hope I seek. So, how am I going to find hope in 2022? Hope was the slogan for Obama's campaign, remember?-- and now that hope seems like a dim light in the past. I'm going to put my hope in what humans have been and are capable of, creating. Creating art, connections, great food and new lives.