Not a moment too soon…

That Kicking And Screaming You Hear Is The Old, The Stale, And The Obsolete On Its Way Out

There are a dozen reasons to feel good again as we say farewell to years of misery, mistrust, gloom and doom

It was briefly obscured, but it was never far away. (Photo Credit: Kind and Curious via Unsplash.com)

Remember hope? I’m here to report that it’s back and better than ever.

And I should know. Because I spent a half-dozen years here on Medium writing satirically about the doom and despair that I saw everywhere and that seemed to be consuming everyone on the planet.

But, now, even I’m sick of hearing myself opine about the unhappy state of the country and the world, satirically or not.

Sure, on the surface, things still look bleak: violent conflicts raging everywhere; political turmoil and polarization impeding progress; climate carelessness and destruction freaking us all out; extraterrestrials surreptitiously seeding our best virgins to breed a mutant, master race intent on liquidating mankind.

It’s total chaos out there, right?

Look deeper. A few months ago I posted a Medium piece about the planet’s twelve thousand year patriarchy coming to an end. It was a humor piece, but now I see that it was no joke. The male fossils may…