As Charles Dickens wrote in his A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.” Those words were written in 1859, but they could have been written yesterday.

How do we even begin to describe the year that was 2020? It was a year of so many extremes – a once-in-a-century pandemic, the most widely contested elections in U.S. history, unprecedented economic collapse, historic unemployment, tsunamis of misinformation and disinformation, and truly unimaginable levels of mistrust, suffering, and despair in the souls of people everywhere.