A new year is a time for making resolutions, starting new, and dreaming big. But quite often the treadmill becomes a clothes rack for things we’ve outgrown, and our resolve to eat healthier evaporates as soon as the drive-up for Raising Cane’s clears up. Keeping resolutions requires willpower and work, and they must be backed by determination and strategies for change. If not, resolutions morph into wishes.
Wishes might be fun when blowing out candles or sitting on Santa’s lap. But wishes are even weaker than resolutions.
Resolutions are usually individual commitments, but I’m proposing a few collective resolutions around honestly preserving our U.S. and Iowa history.
Telling the American story honestly
Let’s resolve not to allow anyone or any group to whitewash history to distort America’s story to fit a particular narrative. People on the political left and right need to recognize history is nonpartisan. Neither major party owns our American story…