Hopes for 2021

I followed my tradition of putting away holiday decorations on New Year’s Eve…taking a few pictures as I made my way around the house taking things apart…gathering it all to take downstairs to the storage bins and boxes…packing is all away. I put the maple seedling and dried sunflowers I’d kept in my office window out in the front flower bed….a cleaning out to begin the new year.

I started thinking about what I hope will happen for us in 2021. Here’s my wish list for the country –

A transition of national leadership….and immediate focus of that new team on the response to the pandemic and initiation of actions based on data and wisdom rather than political whim…thus calming the mental stress that was increased by the leadership-created-chaos of 2020.
Organized rollout of vaccines across the country – setting reasonable expectations of the process and the results of the program.
Pace of economic recovery increasing as the pandemic subsides.
Approaching pre-pandemic types of activities by fall 2021.

For myself and my family – I hope that

We all stay vigilant protecting ourselves for getting COVID-19…and we get the vaccine before mid-year.
We can visit in-person (also by mid-year).
I get to return to my volunteer gigs!
By the fall, there will be in-person birding festivals to enjoy

It could be better….the vaccination rollout happens faster than it appears to be at this point!