New Year's resolutions in the time of Trump

Yes, as readers have surely been entertained to discover, there are no more midweek parties on the horizon until April 3rd, so today, in fact, marks the beginning of the period for carrying out our list of New Year's resolutions.

But this start to the year, with international law once again in disarray, and with Trump threatening everything that moves, has had the effect of reducing us to the status of mere pawns on a chessboard manipulated by a hand without ethical or legal constraints, where our will counts for nothing. Typical of times of plenty. But it only seems that way.

I share the resolution of an ARA subscriber: "To put my energy into decisions that are as free and loving as possible, and not into fighting enormous phantoms." This is what we could call local action, achievable acts directed at people in our closest personal or social circle, with the idea of ​​improving their lives. This is the case of a doctor in Badalona who, for over a year, has been visiting the occupants of apartment B9 in Badalona outside of her working hours. They are now evicted.

Let's start with what we can do for ourselves, without making excuses about a misalignment of the stars. These resolutions come in all shapes and sizes, like that of a nonagenarian who is also a subscriber to AHORA: "I live a life in which I do what I have to do without complaining, much less feeling sorry for myself, about what I used to be able to do and now I can no longer say if I can, how I can, with such serenity." Onward until the April review.