The line stretching out the door of your local Simply Salad and the 40-minute wait for a treadmill at the gym can mean only one thing: It’s New Year’s Resolution season. Most of those people will be off kale and on the couch by the time the calendar flips to February, because change is hard. But perhaps we can all adopt the University of Central Florida football team’s resolution: to choose joy.
Everything is terrible. The half of the country that is not shoveling the remains of a bomb cyclone is on fire. Everyone hates everyone else and no one listens to anyone else and at any moment we might declare war on North Korea.