7 minutes | Tuesday, January 2, 2024
The assumption behind resolutions is that something must be corrected and improved. We resolve to be fitter, healthier, cleverer, richer, more successful, more popular, more productive, better dressed, happier. What if, instead, we focused our intentions on all that is undesirable in human activity — wars, bigotry, brutality, the despoiling of the earth — and sought to address it?