ANOTHER DAY - morning

1994. This short morning/evening song grew from several seeds. The first was the waking sense of a new day presented like a gift. Also, the idea of everyday living as an "adventure" is a thought I'd had for years and it just needed the right song to appear in. But two other factors really made major contributions. The first of these was a tape Dorothy gave me for Fathers Day (first Sunday in September). American storyteller and humorist, Garrison Keillor, in a piece called "Thoreau on the subway" concludes: "...we only live one place, and here we are... and why else would anyone live here if not to observe reality." Many people talk of living in another life, at another time. I don't think we know about that. This is the moment, here is the place - let's live! The second was the film "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert", which we'd been to see the week before I wrote the song. What a celebration of life, a revelling in colour, an enjoyment of sheer existence - about three drag queens travelling through the Australian outback, from Sydney to Alice Springs. I heard God talking in that movie - in the scenery, the costumes, the people, the relationships - much more clearly than I often hear in a church. God's good news should be that enjoyable, not a burden, something weighing us down with a feeling of "someone is trying to get at me here!"