The year ahead

I thought this meme, making its way around the Interwebz, is apt:

The approximate translation is: I am convinced that ’17 is going to be a better year.

As it happens, whether 1917 was a good year depended entirely upon who and where you were. From my perspective, a hundred years on, it was actually pretty awful all around. Although the Bolsheviki probably considered it more of a win than Nicholas II when they looked back on it.

Yeah—it’s going to be a bumpy ride.