Wish you a Merry Christmas
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: Christmas Music

Dear friends,

let me wish you a Merry Christmas, celebrated in peace in the circle of your relatives, your families, partners and all the others, which are particularly close to you; with all those people we often do not take as much care as we want. Some of you may spend your time far away from your home, some of you even in foreing countries, studying, working or on a concert tours - I wish at least you weren´t lonely and hope your path will take you home once again.

And for the upcoming New Year I wish it was full of pleasant, beautiful and inspiring experiences. The most I wish you is a strong health and also enough of enthusiasm, optimism and a sheer joy of life. And if you perhaps experienced some troubles recently, I wish the New Year would bring you more hapiness in return. Well, all of us sometimes feel like being born in an unlucky star... In such moment we should remember there is a plenty of those, who suffer more. Some of them fortunately knows the cure for that. They know we should be able to find beauties in the little things and so we should give it a try as well.

For those, who devote their lives to the service of beautiful music I wish it brought you still more pleasure and fulfillment and I hope you are going to be succesful in the field of art. Just please, don´t be academic, even when you are future Bachelors, Masters or even Doctors ;)

I´d like to finish with a petite quotation by a great artist and a passionated lover of life:

"Love the life and life will love you back." (Arthur Rubinstein)

So let´s try to believe it´s true.

All the best, Merry XMas and Happy New Year :)

Richard Pohl.