Kintyre is on mainland Britain and sits at the edge of the Atlantic. From the west coast of the peninsula I can, and often have, sat and looked across between the northern coastline of Ireland to the left and the island of Islay to the right, over the sea in the direction of Newfoundland two thousand miles away. Lucky, lucky me.

I wrote Angels For Today a number of years ago while doing just that.

Something about space and time, westerly breezes, the smell and sounds of the sea, evoke a sense of freedom, of hope and of possibility. Grand themes. But that’s what the song is about.

I haven’t sung it for a long while. The arrangement in the recording is big, and it feels like it should be. Hard to match that with little me and an acoustic guitar. Even if I can blast ‘em out.

But really, though the song and the themes are Big, it can just as easily apply to the simpler setting of our everyday life. There is freedom, and hope and possibility, here, right now, sitting at my laptop. Don’t even need the spectacular scenery.

We can all, anywhere and at anytime, transform ourselves into angels for today. Consciousness is an ocean that we can swim in, and not just gaze upon.


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