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d bag of poison and your favorite things. Here’s my wrap-up

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                     2020 started out for me with hopes of getting ahead in life, and making this year better than last. Last year I faced hardships of barely hanging on financially, and I thought, since I was ready to works smarter than harder, I would be all set. Then the pandemic hit. The pandemic felt, and continues to feel like a wall. Like America smashed right into a giant wall, from which chaos and hardship ensued, and we continue to scramble from one tragedy to the next, barely able to breathe or even grasp how bad the last tragedy was, before heading into the next, blindsided by the horrors.  Just on Christmas Day, a terrorist committed suicide by exploding his RV, with him inside. America shrugged it off, like our exhaustion from all the hardships left us with empathy exhaustion. And we are all exhausted. Twitter feeds full of family losses, news media telling us how many are sick and dying, the president more interested in golf, the senate unwilling to help the needy. It f