Flurry Up, Winter!

I heard John Lennon's song about christmas playing while I was pushing a grocery cart around Sobey's.
This was a day or two before xmas.
A tear came to my eye and I just had to stop.
As I think about that now, just minutes into the New Year, I remember Lennon telling us to dream our own dreams.
When things get tough I do what many of us do - play some music on whatever sound system we may have. Perhaps we sing a song ourself.
Maybe we choose an old favourite. We hum or play air guitar or "play" the drums with a flourish.
In some way or other knowing that the musicians we admire go through the same pain and joy that we do makes the pain easier to bear and the joy that much more uplifting.
There's also the excitement and wonder of discovering a new record (funny how we still use the term "record" this far into the digital age).
I think in the future perhaps we will all have our own radio/television/stations.
Will we optimistically "beam" our love of music to the rest of the world?
I'm going to sign off with a couple of Jokes.
- The owner of a high end stereo store is at his doctor's office.
He says to the doctor: "No way. I can't possibly have Mono"

- A woman brings her computer to her doctor. The doctor examines the computer and says: "It's not a virus, its bacterial."

Martin January 1 2010