After a year of doing nothing, we’re going to take a holiday.  

If I look back and read what has happened this year, it’s probably a lot.  But it feels like nothing has been accomplished except survival.  And I don’t allow myself to read my diary, because it will make me even more self-conscious.

And I’ll be embarrassed that I write so much about my life and not about politics and change in the country.  I’ll be ashamed I have done nothing to improve even the small section of the world I inhabit.

So