It’s a bright, sunny morning

Each day a new beginning.

I remember driving to an appointment and listening to the radio. (Now I never listen to the radio in my car, and we don’t have one in the house.)

I flipped to hear Jason Bentley on KCRW. He played “Lifeboat.” The song has stuck with me since then, especially this couplet from the chorus:

It’s a bright, sunny morning

Each day a new beginning

Lifeboat, by Miranda Lee Richards

Now, on the back end of reading Jordan Peterson’s two books, I look at each morning as a moment of pure potential. What will I do today to mold, from the potential presented to me, a reality worth living? Or in Peterson-speak, I look forward to creating order from chaos. That, after all, is what we, as humans, do.

Miranda Lee Richards did that. She created the order of a song from a chaos of ideas in her mind.

The melody of Lifeboat pops into my consciousness frequently, especially on my dawn walks around the neighborhood.

What a improbable gift.

Someone I never met (Miranda Lee Richards) wrote a song for her own reasons. This was a significant, difficult task for her, I’m sure. Yet she persisted and produced the lyrics and melody that became Lifeboat.

Against all odds (I’m sure) she recorded the song. The music industry is brutal.

Of all of the songs that could have been played at that moment, Jason Bentley chose Lifeboat. I happened to be driving that day and pushed the button to hear what was on KCRW. The two-second audition I give to songs 🙂 enticed me to stay, and the song I heard is with me today.

My life is permanently better because I remember two lines of a song heard during the course of that tenuous string of events.

The causal chain continues. The ripples of a new way to see the new day continue to spread from that pebble dropped in my mental pond.