 Hmm. Challenging doesn't quite do it. Over the past few years, we have been battling the fiercest storm of my lifetime. Years of attacks on the integrity of our democratic of our democracy, leading to the first ever citizens assault on the Capitol. A pandemic deemed the worst in a century and murders by police that have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement. Furthering, we can hope, our nation's long delayed reckoning with systemic racism.