Merry Everything is my favorite greeting that I’ve seen this year, twenty percent into the Twenty-First Century. I’m shocked by the number of “best lists” that reference that as a Milestone. Then I think back twenty years to the turn of the century and how different the world seemed then. Then it was possible to imagine that the American Century would go on for another hundred years, that the world was becoming more peaceful with war a relic of the past, and that racism and antisemitism were on the wane along with Nationalism; but all the signs of today’s world were there. Still, the American economy outpaced the rest of the world – except China – during the last ten years and Trump is actually cutting back on our wars, so, Happy New Year and Merry Everything.