Goodbye 2024

Tonight we will say goodbye to 2024. It has been a challenging year, there were some good times, but there were some times I just as soon forget.

I wish I could say I was optimistic that 2025 is going to be better. However, I am not. I feel we are about to enter a shit show that we cannot even begin to fathom. I truly hope I am wrong.

I don’t fear for myself, I fear for the young people who I love in my life. I am embarrassed in the mess my generation is making and leaving for these young people. We have led by very poor example and in my opinion are setting these young people up for failure.

The world lost many good people in 2024. The most recent being Jimmy Carter. I will not argue about his politics. However you cannot argue that he was a good human being that cared about his fellow human beings and that he led by example on that front.

He did not shamelessly grift the populace with selling cheap Chinese made items (sneakers, watches, guns, bibles, shirts, hats, cologne, etc) with his name plastered all over them.

Like all of us, he did have his own skeletons and relatives that he had to deal with. He had his younger brother Billy to deal and put up with. Does anyone besides me remember Billy Beer? I am sure that if you had a six pack of that it will probably be worth a little bit more than it was a few months ago.

They say time heals all wounds, but today I will be honest I am missing Jennifer more than ever. What I would have given this morning to roll over and snuggle with her and maybe then I would be looking more forward to the new year.

However that being said, I know her anxiety about the state of our country and world as we enter the Trump 2.0 era would have been off the charts. So I am glad she is viewing and stewing from heaven where all of this crap does not impact her.

Well enough of my soap box for today. Happy New Year to anyone reading this and God Bless America and the world we are going to need it!