This Crazy Year
When we looked forward to the Year of Our Lord 2020, we really didn’t expect what has developed. The Mayflower Quadricentennial was going to be a big deal, with lots of celebrations and introspections. And either we were going to decide to give Donald Trump another four years, or we were going to hand the reins to the Democrats; and that was exciting. Happy-exciting, or unhappy-exciting, depending on how you looked at it. Nobody could remember the last serious pestilence, and we whose life experience includes world war represent already a small, senile minority that nobody takes very seriously.

Then COVID-19 struck in the spring and distorted a lot of our private and collective experiences. Killed some friends and a lot of strangers, and imposed a pathetic thing called “social distancing” with face-masks and hygienic superstitions and whole new ways to judge each other. Whatever are we going to do for Thanksgiving, next month? With seventy-one days to go before the surprises of 2021 peep over the horizon, it feels like a good time to rejoice over something.
ron And the extended Anderson-Ralston collective really doesn’t have to look far. It was actually last year, in late autumn of 2019, that our own Ron Ralston finally had his skills and sterling qualities recognized in an environment that will nurture them without destroying his mental and emotional equilibrium. Be it known that Ron is now rejoicing full-time as Brigham Young University’s very first Video Producer, bringing to that campus a badly-needed increment of professionalism for the benefit
of its community and enabling him to support his family after an extended period of unemployment. Meanwhile, our own Rick was already enjoying the benefits and opportunities of an influential position in the library of the University of Utah, even as his career-long ambition
beckoned from Provo, forty-five miles to the South. He loved the job at the U, but when his ideal position opened up at BYU, we have to see it as a Godsend that the faculty and administration there recognized his capabilities and brought him aboard as the University Librarian, in charge of the prestigious Harold B Lee Library, probably for the remainder of his professional life. It’s a climax appointment. rick
So, Thanksgiving, bring it on! Providence is still our Friend. Thanks, dear Lord: we have a very great deal to be grateful for!
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