I wanted to throw out a few parting words for this fowl and wretched year, put 2008 behind me and open up a new positive outlook for 2009 beginning with the song "Begin the Beguine" written by Cole Porter and introduced by June Knight in the Broadway musical Jubilee (1935).
Cole Porter wrote the music for this musical which ran for 169 days, and the story line is very befitting of the changing times we are now living....:
Story goes like this..."When an impending revolution threatens a royal family of a fictional Kingdom, the King and his regime opts to abandon their responsibilities and pursue their private dreams. The King meets party hostess Eva Standing; the Queen becomes enamored with swimmer-turned-actor Charles Rausmiller; the Prince pursues singer Karen O'Kane; and the Princess is wooed by playwright/composer/actor Eric Dare. When the hostile uprising proves to be a hoax, the four return to power, bringing with them the commoners who have taught them some important life lessons."
We all need a taste of reality and experience life sometimes ....outside of our normal realm! This makes us more grounded and creates capable leaders that understand things from the outside in, not just from our own self sustained beliefs of the world which we have created and defined for ourselves.
This may hurt a bit...but in the long run we'll all be better off!
Let's begin the dance and celebrate the fact that the music will play, we can enjoy the future, and that we are better off now than we were in the past!!
A very productive, smart, hard working, hard playing, significant, strategic, and collectively unifying and prosperous 2009 to all of you!! Let's not forget to keep the smiles and good nature at full force, and enjoy our work along the way!
Let's make things better!
