Ah, I just couldn’t let the end of the year pass without one more post for 2008.  My latest hiatus was on account of my taking the time to get two new knees installed.  Though I didn’t have internet access while in rehab—and wouldn’t have had the brain power to make proper use of it if I had—my thoughts were frequently on matters bureaucratic.

I was, first and always, grateful that the bureaucracies in the hospital and rehab were well enough ordered that I had good care in both.  That was a major factor in my having the fastest recovery the folks at the rehab facility have seen in someone who had bilateral knee replacements.

Bureaucracies that serve their constituents—what a concept.

Beyond commenting on those two bureaucracies personally encountered recently, tempting though it is, I’ll refrain from saying things that are no doubt variations on a theme being much repeated on this date regarding the larger issues we in the U.S. are dealing with, and what we have to be happy about in greeting the New Year.  Instead, I’ll just wish one and all a most blessed, wonderful, productive 2009.

Peace.

Deborah Alicen