Now Dears,

I don’t want you to panic. Everything is as it should be in this best of all possible worlds. I’m healthy, you’re healthy, he she it’s healthy. You know the drill. But I have had a scare, and that’s what prompts this little deviation from my obstinate optimism.

A little palpitation is what it was. I felt a light flutter inside the chest, where the heart is, a little lightness of breath, an airiness, almost an indifference to breathing. I immediately ran to my excellent doctor friend Frank, who I went to school with long ago when I was an innocent…well, that doesn’t matter. But Frank always sees to me. And it turns out that nothing’s wrong. Absolutely nothing. Test after test turned out glowing results. Your Gertie is in fine fettle.

Now, I have to confess I’m 36. No longer in the first flush of youth, I’m mature. Not middle aged. But no longer a gawky teen. I’m starting to wonder about the possibility that one day I might grow old, in the distant future, you understand. And then the diseases will strike. You know, the ones that your grannie has. Rheumatism, cataracts, macular degeneration, the list goes on.

Which takes me to today’s money surge. Healthcare dearies. Healthcare. Don’t forget, when you have those few extra pennies, to toss them into a conglomerate that caters to the geezerheads of the near future, the limping grumbling cantankerous worried boomers. There’s many a chicken there to be plucked, and it’s time to get your dollars into the pot where you can see profits from the care of these declining souls. Always in the background of your portfolio keep the equivalent of insurance. You need a little policy of your own for those inevitable accidents, but beyond that why not take a slice of the action from both sides? If you get sick, you have your disability and accident coverage, but you also profit from the misadventures and catastrophes of others. There’s never an ill wind that blows nobody any good, as they say. And they’re right.

So the message today is keep track of the basics. Watch the action in the healthcare sector. It has good, clean, safe, steady growth written all over it. I have to run just now, because Frank’s at the door. We do have a good time.Make hay, children. Make hay.