It was your regular early-autumn tuesday almost exactly two years ago and I had just barely managed to get out of my apartment to walk across the street for my daily fix of caffèlatte, feeling lazy, probably a bit hung-over, to be frank. Can't remember all the details. Anyway, it must have been around three in the afternoon and I had spent the day idling in the vicinity of my sofa, possibly with a guitar in hand, until time had advanced to the point where I get the feeling that leaving the house is required to make the day worthwile. Or maybe I was just hungry.

After enjoying my espresso-based drink, a ham & cheese toast, and some chit-chat with my favorite waitress, I stood up and stepped outside, feeling somewhat refreshed. It wasn't raining but there where puddles on the ground from an earlier, to me unnoticed, shower. Walking past them I saw myself reflected against a grey sky and for some reason I was very happy with what I saw. A tram rolled by, and when it braked for the next stop, its wheels against the wet rails made a pleasantly low screeching sound. It echoed beautifully from the walls of the old apartment buildings. I just stood there, looking at the sky through a hole in the pavement and for some reason I thought that the tram sounded like a church bell. I was overwhelmed by a sensation of secular holiness. I guess you could call it a near-life experience. Instead of a film of my life flashing by, I saw this particular, meaningless moment in my life with a crystal clarity. And it was beautiful! I was exactly where and who I wanted to be. This was my day of just loving life at its nothingest. I had no obligations to anyone but myself. The bell was a signal for me to go back home, back to my own private house of worship on my own private sunday.

Looking back, I think it was just the caffeine kicking in... but when I got home, I picked the guitar up again and wrote a song. It ends with the words "It's my own private sunday and my own private sun is going to shine".

I'm telling you this because I'm getting pretty close to finishing my next album. It's called "My own private sunday". I'll tell you more about it later.

Peace,

Tp

Edit:

Ooops!

I forgot to mention that my first album "My thing" has now officially gone GOLD in Finland.

Things like this mean so little to me...

WAHOOOOO!!!!