Yes , yes it’s Christmas for those who indulge. I love the season actually, no matter how commercialized it has become. I love Christmas songs but in moderation. The more jazzy the feel, the better I like it. My favorite one? “I’ll be Home for Christmas.” This song and I go way back to when I was 15 years old. My first holiday guitar recital and we played — me and about 50 other kids — that tune for a large audience of appreciative parents. It was a stunning moment and one that obviously stuck with me.
Next year — 2008 — will another year full of health care developments for the chattering classes to mull over. I expect nothing big to actually happen until the new President is firmly entrenched in his or her mighty high office. But, as you well know, no opportunity will be missed to speculate on the direction those changes will take and what they will have in store for us all. Much of this talk will be pure wishful thinking disguised as intelligent analysis. No matter, that’s what makes the world go round.
The thing is, you got to prepare yourself for what’s to come. For me, my own 2008 resolution is to keep a level head and exercise more. That’s probably the best I can realistically do, although I don’t know about the exercise part. I’ll save you any pontifications about what you should be doing in 2008, which by all signs I see, will be a momentous year. In fact, the best advice I can give anyone is simply to be careful what you wish for. You never know, we may all have to live with it.
Happy Holidays!
