Pub. 11 2022 Issue 4

When my calendar flipped to November, I immediately thought of Thanksgiving and for all that I am thankful: family, friends, and my community among them. Your membership in VACB is a key entry on my thankful list, as well as your support in allowing me the opportunity to chair this great association. I am grateful to those who joined us in Williamsburg in October for the 2022 Annual VACB Convention. It was a great in-person event, and the lineup of speakers was the best in recent memory.

Between the time I write these words and the time you read them, so many important things will have happened. The “Lame Duck” Congressional session, which has not yet started, will be finished or nearly finished. A runoff election in Georgia will have determined how strong the Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate is (not a typo!), ending the most unusual off-year election season in many years. And on the personal side, we are all experiencing the unfolding of the holiday season, reaching its final crescendo, and all the joy that goes with it.