If we're still here to play music in 11/2020.
Where ya goin', Rick?
Funny you should post this. I love the Christmas season, have since I was a kid, but always build myself up in expectations for the season, and always go into a post-Christmas doldrums get down about how quickly it passed and how I could've done much more (not to mention how my kids are getting older and how many more Christmas' we'll all have together - not morbidly but more once they are in relationships or jobs which might prevent togetherness).
Christmas was so big for me as a season when I was younger, and I would get so down when we'd get in the car after the family gathering only to find the radio at 8 pm Christmas Day would switch off their Christmas programming. Would get me so bummed - of course these days, satellite radio continues the Christmas stuff through New Years Day (not to mention one can stream their Christmas music at any time). Still, it never seems quite the same. Ah well.
Of course, the cynic might through my religion in my face and ask "Aren't you supposed to keep Christmas in your heart all year long", but even I'd be first to say, in reality, that's B.S.
Musically, and spiritually something seems different on December 26 - call it conditioning.
Actually, though I was a bit down and misty-eyed saying goodnight to my kids yesterday (my son went back to his appt, my daughter left for a trip to Finland this AM - nice life, right?), I'm good today. Pretty chipper actually - revving up for New Years soon. You guys don't have to talk me off a post-Christmas ledge this year. And digging getting back to playing some secular and sinful hip-shaking rock and roll!!!!
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