On New Year's Day 2025, I posted a picture along with my Happy New Year's Greeting (for reasons unknown to me, I did not do the same in 2025. A failure on my part). As it turns out - perhaps accidentally - that picture became a leitmotif for my year.
Which made me think: if I were to set a theme for 2026, what would I like it to be?
Setting a theme is always something of a risk of course: there are 365 days to run and, given my recent history, who knows what happens in that time. But setting a theme can be quite different from what occurs during the year. I cannot control the events, but I can control how I approach them.
This - a repost from May of last year - is something that, a bit in conjunction with writing on Humility last year, I have come to see that I need work harder on. And not just writing on Humility; general discourse and interaction - even more so than I can remember - has devolved into "my-sideism" everywhere. My realization last year that this was the "Age of Rage" does not seem to have abated at all.
And that is my hope, my intention - for me, for everyone I interact with, hopefully everyone that reads this. To make this a year of being a good human being.
After all, I hear the opportunities to move up in the field are almost without limit. And there remains very little competition of speak of.