Welcome, everyone, to the year two-thousand-seventeen. I hope you’re seated comfortably. Let us begin.<\/p>\n
I’m hopeful for this new year, because…well, because you sort of have to be, don’t you? The alternative really doesn’t do anybody the least bit of good.<\/p>\n
Twenty-sixteen was a difficult year, for a lot of reasons — not least of all because of the US presidential election, following (for so<\/i> many months) on the heels of the disastrous UK Brexit decision. Sometimes I worry about this sorry little world we live in. But hope, and working to make my little corner of it better, is really all I can do in the new year.<\/p>\n
I hope you find ways to improve your little corners, too, and I wish you all the very best in 2017.<\/p>\n
And now, some music. <\/p>\n
I don’t really do “best albums of the year” or anything like that, but I do put together a mix every month of songs that I like. If you’re one of the imaginary people I’m writing this to now, you may have even seen some of those playlists earlier in the year. Then I try to pull together a combined mix, something like two songs from every month. <\/p>\n
So that’s what this is. Some of the songs are from 2017, some are just tunes I heard somewhere along the way. Either way, these are songs I really enjoyed and wanted to share as we stumble forward into the new day. Enjoy!<\/p>\n