From a short job with Black Voters Matter (and visiting DC!), to helping a charismatic local lawyer become our next District Attorney, to building multiple websites for county parties and candidates, to talking to the media about redlining on behalf of Southerners On New Ground- Columbus, GA, to becoming Young Democrats of Georgia secretary, to seeing one colleague I’ve made this year through YDG become one of 16 electors for Biden and another YDG colleague join the DNC, to serving for a month as a temporary Democratic convention delegate for Georgia (and not even getting a t-shirt to show for it), to surviving someone shooting up the side of our apartment building, to surviving a harsh (yet, in comparison to others’ experiences, mild) brush with COVID and seeing the humanity and solidarity of so many people come through for us in the aftermath, to seeing Mom hit 70 without missing a step, to seeing Roderick graduate high school/join CSU/get a job/get a used car/vote for the first time (absentee!), to seeing my niece Cedrica drive by herself from Texas to Georgia and back for the first time…

This has been a year, spent mostly in bed.