Outside, the birds are singing and the plants are budding. As we say goodbye to winter and embrace the scents, sounds, and sights of spring, there’s light at the end of this proverbial tunnel. Here in the northwest corner of these “united” states, the days are longer, it’s light later…

We are — all of us — navigating uncharted waters. None of us has previously experienced a pandemic, nor the havoc wrought by an unmanaged, exponential crisis. While new leadership may eventually get our current crises under control, the reality is that the last four years revealed our collective shadow…