It’s been a turbulent start to 2025 in my neck of the woods, to say the least: destructive fires all around SoCal, the sudden and unexpected loss of a beloved friend, the vandalization of one of the churches where I sing, and some truly alarming institutional changes at the highest levels. Given that all humans have an inherent negativity bias, it’s all the more important, I think, to give equal, if not greater weight to the good things that come our way. Such as this weekend, which brought badl...