Happy New Year 2026 Edition

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.