New Year's Wish

With a new year coming soon, I wish for my nation (and all other nations) a year:

• without shootings or other violence in the schools, the places of religion, the streets, the homes, or anywhere else, really;

• with honest and competent politicians loyal to their people and principles more than their parties;

• with news media devoted to keeping their people informed of the truths that affect their lives, not only those that inflame their tempers or prurient curiosities;

• with citizens whose idea of citizenship is not to rise up and destroy their fellow citizens, but to protect them all.

May it be so.