By the time this column appears in Lowcountry Weekly, the ball will have dropped in Times Square, New Year’s Eve champagne glasses will have been clinked and washed, hoppin’ john will have been gobbled down for good luck, and we’ll be already rockin’ into 2021. The Presidential election is history, a Covid vaccination awaits in the not-too-distant, Beaufort has a new mayor, Lowcountry nature still spreads its gorgeous wings daily, and life itsownself rolls onward. No doubt this will be the most-anticipated beginning of a year in recent memory. 

Read that title again please. Yep, it doesn’t say resolutions and yep, I know restrictions doesn’t sound very “New Agey.” Often times, it’s not what you do, but knowing what NOT to do. After all, is uncertainty not worse than failure? 

At the risk of stating the obvious, I’m going out on a very short limb to say that the winter of 2020 is an altogether different experience than past holiday seasons. As much as we’d like for it not to be the case, the pandemic is still a reality and political divisiveness is still raging. In the midst of it all, I shout to the skies to bring on that holiday cheer!