We’re finishing the decade and we’re completing the year. More importantly, you are still here. And so is our holiday tradition of BSA wishes for the new year.

Certainly there is much work to be done, and we believe that art and the creative spirit can heal our people, our cities, our nations, our planet. May we all look toward 2020 with a clear vision.

At BSA our hearts are full and our minds are untroubled as we look confidently toward these new days- with hopes and wishes for the New Year – and a daily image that inspired us in 2019.

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Support Someone Not Like You

It may mean more to them than we ever will know, this act of support and kindness. Giraffes are disappearing and aside from the typical reasons scientists usually give for extinction, they don’t know exactly why.

Photographer Ami Vitale says of this image, “An orphaned baby reticulated giraffe embraces Sarara Camp wildlife keeper Lekupania. This giraffe will be rehabilitated and return to the wild, as a number of others have done before him,” she says. Unfortunately, she say, “Right now, giraffe are undergoing what has been referred to as a silent extinction.” They can’t help themselves at this point. We going to have to.

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