As we all prepared to take another trip around the sun in 2018, I took some time, over the holidays, to reflect on the kind of year 2017 has been for Integrated Biomechanic Therapy. The first half of 2017 focused on the intensive work to define the systematic elements of IBT, in order to submit the patent application by my mid-year target. While this work was largely performed in isolation, I watched the world I was creating this system to serve become increasingly divided,