It is easy to develop a doom and gloom attitude when you watch the news, but change takes time and when I look at 2023, I have a positive attitude.  I am sure that you might feel different if your flight got cancelled and you are stuck at am airport, or if you lost power due to some radicals damaging a power plant, but I think we are on the right track.  I can see that Putin is losing his war in the Ukraine, and that the citizens of Iran are fed up with the Guidance Patrol or the morality police who are responsible for the death of Mahsa Amini when she wasn’t wearing a hijab.  We will still have climate change, but at least people are thinking more seriously about clean energy.  We did great in our battle with COVID-19 and a lot of us survived.  We still have…