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<\/a>I realize all these images have champagne in them, but I don’t even drink!<\/p><\/div>\n
In January, I wrote, \u201cSo the concept for this first article of 2024 came to me in a flash\u2013let\u2019s all begin the new year with kindness. And then keep it up for the next twelve months. And beyond. Once you make kindness a habit, it will become easier for you.”<\/p>\n
On that tip, here\u2019s a small example: I\u2019ve spent more time with Mr. X this year than usual, outside of the lockdown, of course, but now that togetherness includes public places it could not during the Covid siege. At first he was always horrified when I said a quick sentence or two to strangers. He thought I was bothering them, but then he started noticing their happy and grateful reactions, so he asked me what I was saying to them. When he realized I was giving them each a compliment, he began enjoying my words right along with them. He especially got a kick out of it when I told a girl whom I was riding behind on an escalator that she\u2019s the only person I\u2019ve ever seen who looks perfect, with no cellulite at all, in leggings! I think that made her whole year, and now Mr. X is used to, and loves, my kindness to strangers. I think he may even try it himself soon! (As should you all.)<\/p>\n
On another front, this has been a very challenging year, to say the least, especially for all normal-thinking Americans. So we just have to buck up for the next four years, and try to get through them the best we can.<\/p>\n
This is what I wrote in my New Year\u2019s Eve column in 2016, and boy, does it very sadly still apply today!:<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s all try to celebrate like this is the last day of 2015, before our country went to complete chaos! Now we can have one more day of semi-happiness before the constant state of worry begins for all of us normal folks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI usually don\u2019t look too far ahead in life, (rather, just forward to fun events,) but I found myself trying to imagine just what I\u2019ll have to write on this page next year at this time. I just hope that the incoming administration of buffoons and dangers hasn\u2019t gotten us into another World War by then.\u201d<\/p>\n
And I feel the same way right now. How are we going so backward???<\/p>\n
<\/a>These pix are way too happy for my words in this article, but I wanted SOME happiness in here.<\/p><\/div>\n
And then, looking back over the archives here on INAM<\/em>, I noticed that at the start of 2017, I wrote of the previous year : \u201cNo event was [worse than the] election results, which gave us the oldest, dumbest, most evil, most ignorant, most dangerous fool of a United States President in history! Just when we\u2019re supposed to be advancing in life, we\u2019ve gone all the way back to slavery and Nazis! What a supreme shame.\u201d<\/p>\n Then in January 2019, I wrote, \u201cAnd his actions over the past two years have not only done nothing to change my opinions of the situation, but have cemented them!!! How is this happening in our lifetime??? Future generations will not believe that the American people really elected the reincarnation of Hitler all these decades later. (Well, actually, the majority<\/em> of us did not<\/em> elect him\u2014the crazy system of the Electoral College did!)\u201d<\/p>\n So how could even more<\/em> of us have been so insane, unkind, and downright stupid to have brought back this dictator? And now is even worse because he has his boss, Elon Musk, in tow!<\/p>\n