This is the last Sunday of 2020. And it’s been kind of a depressing year. The pandemic, protests and unrest, wildfires, the slog of the election. Not an easy one.

So how do we make sense of what we just went through? Well OPB’s reporters have been out on the front lines, trying to do that every day of 2020. And it was a lot to handle. But despite all the hardship, and pain we witnessed this year, there were still places to find hope and optimism. Here’s a few of those moments.