This year, I chose meliorism as my word. It’s not the easiest word to say or even the most poetic, but it carries a quiet power that speaks to where I am as an artist and as a person. Meliorism, the belief that the world can get better and that we have a role in making it so, feels like an anchor for me right now—a way to counter the weight of uncertainty and cynicism that so easily creeps in…