2022 was a challenging but very good year

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2022 was a challenging but very good year

And the best is yet to come! Full transparency. For most of us, there were tears of joy and the anguish of a wrenching of grief in 2022. There were connections, real and virtually, with voices, faces and spirits of enduring past friends, relatives, colleagues and those we simply neglected even in our midst. Then … 2022 was a challenging but very good year Read More »

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