A Brand New Day

On this cold winter morning at year’s end, I was thinking about mustering up some new resolutions to guide my performance as a cancer patient in 2013. But my past performance in abiding by such resolutions has been rather tawdry. (See http://hotelmelanoma.blogspot.com/2011/12/resolutionary-breakthroughs-year-end.html and http://hotelmelanoma.blogspot.com/2011/04/melanoma-dreamin.html.) So I’ve decided instead to kick that can down the road and, maybe, deal with my issues “later”. Congress does it, repeatedly, so why shouldn’t I?

In 2013 I’ll be taking a cue from my elderly golden retriever and taking life at the Hotel Melanoma one brand new day at a time. Wishing you a very happy and healthy New Year, I’ll sign off for 2012 with a new rendition of Van Morrison’s “Brand New Day”…



When all the dark clouds roll away
And the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time
Well it shines so bright and it gives so much fright
And it comes from the sky above
Makes me feel mole free makes me feel like me
And lights my life with drugs

And it seems like and it feels like
And it seems like yes it feels like
A brand new day, yeah
A brand new day oh

I got lost and double crossed
With my tans behind my back
I was longtime hurt and thrown in the dirt
Shoved out on the pale road track
I've been used, abused and so infused
And I had nowhere to run

But I stood and looked
And my eyes got hooked
On that beautiful morning sun

And it seems like and it feels like
And it seems like yes it feels like
A brand new day, yeah
A brand new day oh

And the sun shines down all on the ground
Yeah and this lass is oh so ‘screened
And my heart is filled and I've got the will
And I don't really feel so green
Here it comes, here it comes
0h here it comes right now
And it comes right in on time
Well it pleases me and it teases me
And it satisfies my mind