I was getting a drink recently with a friend who reminded me that my really special gift is my ability to find levity and celebrate absurdity beyond heaviness, beyond intellectualism. Ain’t that the truth. It’s been an unforeseen heavy year -- one in which I have pondered this balance between heaviness and levity, condemnation and affirmation, restraint and action. I continue to grapple with this but see through the fog a clarity around the bend. Below is a year filled with w